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Im looking to build a small nas, I'm pretty set on getting the Beelink Me mini.

Now Im wondering which nvme drives to get?

I know the Beelink Me mini supports gen 3 drives but gen 4 drives will do ok. My main priority is reliability because I'm looking for a "Set & forget" approach 

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Okay, what is the use case here, cause if all you wanted was network attached storage you could just attach an Exos HDD to a Raspberry Pi 5 for maybe as little as 20% of the price and get roughly the same outcome.

 

(Keep in mind that 2.5Gb networking is about 10 times slower than a single gen 3 NVMe drive, so there really isn't much of an advantage to using NVMe storage in a NAS if your limited to 2.5Gb)

 

What do you actually want to be able to do?

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15 minutes ago, Dr. Will0hlep said:

Okay, what is the use case here, cause if all you wanted was network attached storage you could just attach an Exos HDD to a Raspberry Pi 5 for maybe as little as 20% of the price and get roughly the same outcome.

 

(Keep in mind that 2.5Gb networking is about 10 times slower than a single gen 3 NVMe drive, so there really isn't much of an advantage to using NVMe storage in a NAS if your limited to 2.5Gb)

 

What do you actually want to be able to do?

Honestly, I'm planning on the Beelink mini to be a home assistant machine, plex server and family storage

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