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The latest small M.2 NAS’s make very good consumer grade, small, quiet, power efficient storage you can put in your living room, next to the tv for media storage and light network attached storage.

It’d be great if you could fully utilise the M.2 speed but they are not about that.

Why not a single large M.2? Price.



Would four 2TB SSD be more or less expensive than one 8TB SSD? And also counting power efficiency and RAID complexity?


4 small drives+raid gives you redundancy.


And often are about the same price or less expensive than the one 8TB NVMe.

I'm hopeful 4/8 TB NVMe drives will come down in price someday but they've been remarkably steady for a few years.


Given the write patterns of RAID and the wear issues of flash, it's not obvious at all that 4xNVME actually gives you meaningful redundancy.




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