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Given that their price for their other enterprise disks seems to be about $800/TB, tacking on a premium for the new tech and such, I'd guess the price will be close to $30K.

But man, if I had an extra $120K to blow, I'd totally build a 90TB NAS out of these.

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Is there any particular reason why you'd need SSD speeds in your NAS? im assuming this would be for home use.

If you say just for fun, then that's a valid reason :-)

Silence is a nice feature for SSD :)

Just for fun!

With gigbit internet I realized the HDD write speed is my limiting factor. It’s taking siginificantly longer to extract my compressed files than it takes to download it.

Adding an ssd as a staging drive for downloads and using it for transcoding has given me a good boost.

Why not just stage to a RAM disk?

Not enough RAM at the moment my water cooler failed and I just replaced it. I want to try some of the Optane memory and my MOBO supports it. My other hobbies have been comsuming my spare cash.

I just bought the Thunderbolt 3 Drobo, and realize it's completely pointless without SSDs. It advertises 40 Gbit speeds when using an active Thunderbolt 3 cable, but only gets about 200 MB/s with normal drives. I could probably get close to that with the USB drobo.

Yes. But you're totally future-proof now. And you can speed it up a ton if you throw in a single fast SSD as the cache disk.

Then in 4-8 years, when the price/performance works for you, you can throw in all SSDs.

Wouldn't the speed ultimately be limited by the CPU speed of the Drobo itself instead of the interface? Even hardware accelerated hashing has limits.

It's not the speed, it's the size and power consumption. Big heavy server racks with 1000 watt power supplies don't go well in apartments.

Yeah, we were running the 14TB Hitachi FMD flash drive modules and list price (which nobody pays, I hope) was like $44k a pop. Couple trays of those things runs you $1M easy.

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