Re: Synology Diskstation architecture (was: Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing)

On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:29:02 -0500, "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net>
wrote in <naWcnZgz34APvxL6nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@earthlink.com>:
 >    Last one I bought was basically a Celeron. Worked fine for a
 >    medium-sized office.
 >
 >    The ARM-v7 series are 32-bitters, probably a rough equiv of yer basic
 >    Celeron in performance.
 >
 >    In short you don't need an i9 for an NAS. The I/O waits suck up
 >    everything. Much of anything above yer Celeron or A7 is a waste of
 >    CPU.
I agree for now, but that's going to change once people attach faster
and faster lans to NAS' -- and they start working with drives
faster than SATA III.
. . .
   I've only seen ONE place set up for a 10gb LAN.
   Perhaps the newest construction ? 10gb-capable
   switches aren't nearly as many - 1gb stuff is
   plenty and cheap and normally "fast enough".
   Lots of places wired up with cat 5e/6 long
   long back and are not gonna re-wire anytime
   soon.
   I don't really see a SATA-IV ... 'drives' will
   mostly become M.2 cards or equivs, at least
   for 'home users'.
   Now for an NAS - and we assume you want a lot
   more performance than 'cloud' storage - it is
   still a bit difficult to find MBoards that
   have a lot of M.2 slots. Did find :
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/asrock-z790-nova-wifi-has-six-m2-nvme-slots-reinforced-gpu-support
   External "m.2 hubs" don't seem to exist. Best I can find are
   USB 3.x holders for M.2 cards (own one). Theoretically 10gbs.
   MAYbe, someday, some kind of 100gbs optical link to something
   fast like M.2 ???
   An issue I see is the vast number of people/orgs that
   are skipping a local NAS and using nothing but 'cloud'.
   Pointy-haired bosses think that's cool. The performance
   hit is, well, horrible - but the boss mostly just surfs
   his investment accounts and doesn't notice (or listen).
   I think a local NAS is extremely valuable. Quick and
   you can easily engineer backups or even a fail-over
   server if you wanna get fancy. Sinology offers
   something kinda like that, a sort of mirroring, if
   I remember correctly.
   Dunno if anyone here has found a smart way to detect
   ANY writes to drives so just the affected file can
   be echoed to a mirror. I've messed with some of
   the 'C' stuff, but it's most oriented towards just
   one folder, preferably sub-folder, and having it
   scan an entire 16tb drive all the time just ain't
   good. There MAY be someplace to tap into kernel
   routines to see and note actual file writes.
   SoftRAID is doing something kinda like that but I've
   never figured out HOW exactly. The docs are kinda
   'dense'.
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