| 18 Dec 2025 |
 K900 | I'm not sure why you need RAM on a NAS really | 19:26:31 |
| K900 | And also the CM3588 does notably come with uhhhhh 4 times the cores | 19:26:42 |
| K900 | And 2.5G networking | 19:27:25 |
 guiniol | just ZFS things? Though, as a receiver of snapshots of unmounted pools, it shouldn't need too much | 19:27:38 |
| guiniol | oh, 2.5G would be nice | 19:27:49 |
| guiniol | and yes, I am worried about the zimaboard being a little on the wimpy side | 19:27:59 |
| guiniol | My main remark wasn't to bring down the CM3588, just to note that the zimaboard option was very cheap | 19:28:32 |
| guiniol | The NAS kit is the larger board with the 4 NVMe slots? | 19:30:01 |
| K900 | The CM3588 is the SoM | 19:30:15 |
| K900 | The "NAS KIT" is the carrier board | 19:30:21 |
| guiniol | Ack, I was wondering if it was some sort of enclosure | 19:31:36 |
| K900 | There is also an enclosure that you can buy | 19:32:56 |
| K900 | Though mine lives in a badly 3D printed case | 19:33:03 |
| guiniol | that would work too | 19:34:35 |
| guiniol | and you run NixOS no issues on it? | 19:34:47 |
| K900 | Yes | 19:40:16 |
| K900 | You can run mainline uboot + NixOS on it | 19:40:29 |
| guiniol | And you've never been limited by the eMMC space? | 19:41:07 |
| K900 | Not that I remember | 19:41:28 |
| guiniol | I need to think about it. I was thinking 2 HDDs, but maybe I can get 4 SSDs instead and not completely break the bank. Fully silent would be a plus since it won't be in my own place | 19:42:58 |
| K900 | I'm running mine with bcachefs on four bargain bin WD Green drives | 19:43:29 |
| K900 | And no active cooling | 19:43:37 |
| K900 | It's fine | 19:43:39 |
| guiniol | M.2 drives? | 19:46:33 |
| K900 | Yes | 19:46:43 |
| guiniol | I just took a look at M.2 prices and I don't think I can do that (I need 16T of useable space and a single 8T SSD is already more than 2x 16T HDD...), so I'd need a m.2 to sata adapter | 19:50:27 |
| 19 Dec 2025 |
 Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) | i think for large ssd storage pools you’d use u.2 instead of m.2, no? | 09:30:59 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) | but that requires a server u.2 backplane | 09:31:14 |
 Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | yeah, u.2 is preferred, as it still talks pcie but has a lot more space (and hence redundency + heat transfer surface) available, though esp consumer mainboards do not support that | 09:42:28 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) | you can probably find pcie HBAs though | 09:44:37 |
