If you use a NAS for file storage it really does not do extreme amounts of IO. Similar to a desktop SSD.

There are torrent freaks out there who really need that price performance fix for everyone else SSDs are fine. Always run them in RAID anyway for redundancy and get TLC storage not QLC.

Solderer ram is slightly more power efficient. And this is probably a laptop board.

That said, 12gb is slightly too low for my liking. Though an N200 CPU does not have much headroom to upgrade for anyway.

More reliable, less power draw than HDDs, faster and far more space efficient.

Unless you are data hoarding random torrents, 6 to 12 TB is plenty.

Do mainstream VPN providers not have a Chinese solution?

Cut some holes in the plate covering them

HDD’s use quite a lot of power and take up a lot of space. I would recommend using SSD’s if you have the budget for it.

Did not buy the 9800X3D

Truenas

Thought it would be more popular. I’m outnumbered hard

M2 isn’t much more expensive than HDDs anymore. It used to be five times times the cost. Now maybe 1.5 to 2 times. And they require a lot less space and no dedicated backplane with seperate power.

Also you need redundancy. A 20TB hdd is very expensive and usually very overkill. Rebuilding them takes very long if you ever have corruption issues, along with other problems.

It’s better to have three smaller drives than a single 20TB one.

Unless you’re running an actual datacenter with cooling and big rack space, m.2 is a likely more worth it these days for a small home NAS.

M2 is getting so cheap that having a drive spinning all day can add up in electricity whereas m2 is a lot more efficient.