Wires! So… many… WIRES
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Synology DS1515+ with two DX513, 13x WD Red 2/4/8TB, 2x 128GB SSD for cache.
Running Plex, Backup (also is an offsite location for my pops, and he is mine), VPN server and Docker with my 5 nodes and a TS3 server container. Really happy so far with the thing. Last thing i’ve added was the whole Storj thing, already had all my drives and they weren’t hybernating because of Plex, so no added cost at all. The nodes run over a seperate ethernet port, while one is for Plex, one directly to my main PC and one for the remaining stuff. We have fiber in the streets, but not into our home. Bandwidth is 600Mbit/s down and 250Mbit/s up.
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Looks really professional! This is my setup 100mbit up/down
Naked:
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On top of things:
16GBx2, 8GBx1
And raid1 3TB and 250GB SSD
It currently hosts 3 nodes on the biggest disks.
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That shelf looks a bit small holding that case lol
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My mom worries about this too. 
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What magic makes this computer stay on the shelf?! 
First version of a levitating node, congrats!!
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Sometimes moms are right.
Also, please remove all the paper stuff in there, no need to risk fires…
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That… Was… Super Mad Max! Congratulations!!!
Im going to have my first node in DC in few months
Great 
What do you mean?
How did you do to hos this in a datacenter? I thought hosting in a datacenter would cost you more than you earn.
What is the fill percentage of that? Cool rig.
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It currently stores 17 TB of storj on 7 disks.
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So, finally i was able to move all my Nodes to the Helios64 NAS. Based on Armbian.
Disks
- Bay1: WD HC550, 16 TB
- Bay2: WD HC550, 16 TB
- Bay3: WD Red 4 TB
- Bay4: WD Red 4 TB
- Bay5: empty
Currently i have also running Nextcloud and other Stuff stored on Bay1 beside the StorJ Node (14TB). Bay2 is fully dedicated to StorJ (16TB). Bay3 will get a Node which is running on a Root Server (ESX) which i am retiring as i do not use it anymore. And on Bay 4 i will put an Internxt Node (Im not so happy with that project, but lets see where it goes). Depending what the Future brings, there is still space for an 4th Node in the empty Bay5.
As soon as Duplicati is able to run on ARM with the Tardigrade Libraries i will (of course) use Tardigrade for my Nextcloud Backups (Backblaze it is for now).
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I have to say that is the cutest nas I have ever seen.
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The only 1 that can be operated using a controller 
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I really love that device. Unfortunately it’s just a little too expensive to buy just to play around with. What is the performance like on this thing?
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Yeah its not that cheap as an RaspberryPI 
I replaced my HP Gen8 Server with it (because of powercosts) and moved my whole Stuff there. Not that much Memory 4GB, but for now it works very well. I have dockerized everything (Nextcloud, PiHole, Duplicati, some WebProxy, and the StorJ Exporters and Dashboard itself).
CONTAINER ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDS
84e13ca2bfbf storj-node2A 15.16% 23.79MiB / 3.711GiB 0.63% 7.09GB / 2.83GB 4.15GB / 4.71GB 19
3d7dc12b2967 storj-node2B 16.76% 25.12MiB / 3.711GiB 0.66% 7.25GB / 2.65GB 3.77GB / 4.69GB 15
82ba4469f64c storj-prometheus 0.00% 66.08MiB / 3.711GiB 1.74% 1.28GB / 57.8MB 1.06GB / 176MB 12
8d7bff061e83 duplicati 0.60% 179.4MiB / 3.711GiB 4.72% 403MB / 47.9GB 59.7GB / 75.3GB 28
449e2673c5da storj-grafana 0.04% 27.85MiB / 3.711GiB 0.73% 39.6MB / 84.1MB 244MB / 16.1MB 93
dbf2e86fcd7e storj-exporter-node2B 0.04% 15.49MiB / 3.711GiB 0.41% 269MB / 708MB 6.93MB / 0B 2
517b9f46f712 storj-watchtower 0.00% 5.195MiB / 3.711GiB 0.14% 30.9kB / 0B 11.1MB / 0B 14
7a3293fa9da7 nextcloud-app 0.02% 148.2MiB / 3.711GiB 3.90% 17.6GB / 1.43GB 1.61GB / 309MB 11
39dd30d5406e nextcloud-mariadb 0.06% 277.3MiB / 3.711GiB 7.30% 1.09GB / 3.83GB 61.1MB / 4.56GB 26
3c844a1a67a1 pihole 0.15% 16.93MiB / 3.711GiB 0.45% 60MB / 61.8MB 2.24GB / 1.25GB 20
3e44a0b890b1 proxy-mariadb 0.08% 24.84MiB / 3.711GiB 0.65% 4.57MB / 17.7MB 44.5MB / 31.1MB 10
d73ece9a02bf proxy-app 0.02% 57.67MiB / 3.711GiB 1.52% 14.9GB / 14.7GB 2.51GB / 30.2MB 24
954a36bed6ab storj-exporter-node2A 0.04% 13.6MiB / 3.711GiB 0.36% 1.21GB / 2.21GB 10.2MB / 0B 2
Im quite surprised that everything is running so smooth, so i am very happy about the Performance. I only have limited the Cores for Duplicati to 2 as i do not want to risk any instability which it can cause when it uses the all cores (just for Backup). I do not know how it would performe for Rendering Videos (like for Plesk), but thats not an use case for me anyway.
Here some usage graph (Peaks are running Backups) over the last days:
To mention, i have no RAID Setup (or similar like ZFS and so on) in Place, which would generate additional CPU Load, but i know there are some Guys doing that.
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Looks like they opted for a big.LITTLE implementation with 2xA72 performance cores and 4xA53 efficiency cores. I wonder what that does for performance overall compared to the Rpi4’s 4xA72 performance cores. Might require some effort in making sure there is proper big.LITTLE support in the OS you’re using. It should be able to run all 6 cores at the same time right? Do you happen to know how core limitations work on such an architecture? If you limit a process to 2 cores, will it still automatically optimize which cores are being used for that?