fenny
- Asustor FS6812X with room for 12x NVMe M.2 SSDs, no SATA
- Purchased from Scorptec at the end of 2024
- I didn't necessarily need all 12 slots, but I wanted the dual 10G ethernet ports, and the bump to 16GB of RAM while also making it ECC was a compelling option
- I've installed 4x Kingston 4TB KC3000 SSDs, PCIe Gen4, in RAID10
- Single volume, with file shares and LUNs carved out of that
Purchasing notes
Based on my research for options to upgrade ../iowa, my Synology NAS, I determined that they just don't have what I want, or would be vastly too expensive if they do. The Asustor Flashstor was in the right place at the right time, and it's an excellent product so far.
fenny - Asustor FS6812X |
$2420 |
Kingston KC3000 4TB SSD for $380 each |
$1520 |
Mikrotik switches to support 10G networking |
Let's not ask about those... |
Total |
$3940 |
And that sounds like a lot (and it feels like it), but the cheapest Synology all-flash array here is $6500. And it only takes 2.5" SATA SSDs (not inclulded), so I'm just not sure it's worth it. And it's a gonna be noisy because it has little 40mm 1RU fans. You can put a 25G NIC in there I guess, that's nice, but getting less and less relevant for me. Yeah the 10G switch was 1200 bucks, but I'm still ahead on pricing.
Disks
SSDs
- KINGSTON SKC3000D4096G (S/N: 50026B7686E0DF57)
- KINGSTON SKC3000D4096G (S/N: 50026B7686E0DF69)
- KINGSTON SKC3000D4096G (S/N: 50026B7686E0DF53)
- KINGSTON SKC3000D4096G (S/N: 50026B7686E70B88)
Volume 1
- 7.44 TB usable
- RAID 10
- btrfs
iscsi
Target: iqn.2011-08.com.asustor:fs6812x-437849.fenny
- LUNs
- gitea-data: 100G
AlmaLinux repo mirror: 2TB
Backups
Cloud Backup Centre provides the same functionality as Cloud Sync on Synology. I sync the volume to an S3-alike bucket in Backblaze B2, and it seems to work quite nicely.
There's about 4TB of files in there. I don't sync everything to the cloud because it'd be too expensive for data that just isn't that valuable to me, it'd roughly double the costs.