Politely the HC2 at $50 per drive attached seems excessive given that you can never have 10GbE, … but maybe there’s more goodness to it than I’m thinking about. Maybe it’s just alien to me. You’re obviously knowledgeable.
What I cannot find fault with however, is your logic: Don’t care what it is, something will go wrong… 
Politely the HC2 at $50 per drive attached seems excessive given that you can never have 10GbE, … but maybe there’s more goodness to it than I’m thinking about. Maybe it’s just alien to me. You’re obviously knowledgeable.
The point is to use brick based storage that is easy to replicate. The HW itself does not matter much. You can use your former desktops if you want.
You can achieve the same principles with debian or fedora on underclocked HW.
Anything handling files or filesystems like bricks will work - even old school solutions like MyBackupPC.
EDIT: And I assume the sentiment was to not spend too much on a single NAS. It is true that people do overspent on those in general. Building ZFS platforms with power of a desktop and putting in SSDs You might as well spent your time and money on a Synology/HC2 and learn how to use a NAS instead.
Does HC2 cost a bit? Yes.
Can it be done differently for the same money? Probably.
Can it be done cheaper? Maybe but.
I’m not saying that Odroid HC2 is necessarily a solution. Nor is it the cheapest. I mention this only for the fact that OP mentioned that he already has one HC2. So in this context I have developed discussions.
Solutions can be done in many different financial ranges. At the end of the day it all depends on OP preferences. There is not only one right solution here, there are many solutions … a matter of preferences.
If we’re talking specifically about HC, this is the optimal solution for future expansion and it is a small, quiet, compact solution that can be 100% small NAS.
Think about it this way. You want to get the 3-2-1 rule … If you would like to build it on the basis of a large server for a lot of money, you will run out of funds.
Odroid HC and similar SBCs have an acceptable cost per unit, they provide sufficient performance for the needs of a home / small office, they do not generate noise, they consume little electricity, they take up little space. and in my opinion, they are well suited to the second and third level for backups, preferably in remote locations away from the original source.
But this is just one loose suggestion to look at and not an iron recommendation that this is the right way.
Totally. Just get two 2TB MX500 or similar drives and set up a mirror. If you don’t use many features you might even get away with one 8 gig stick ECC memory. Something haswell based should be cheap enough now. Or something integrated.
Just out of curiosity, what was it that made you recommend Haswell (@noenken)? I thought haswell didn’t support ECC…
Thanks everyone for their input. For now, I’m going to just put an SSD in my HC2 and take regular incremental backups to an old desktop. The desktop won’t be powered on 24/7, I’ll use WOL to wake it up, run a backup, and then power it off automatically. In the longer term, I’m still considering going to a ZFS NAS solution, but I’m going to see how I feel in the peace-of-mind department with just the setup I just described.
Haswell means DDR3 which can be had for less than DDR4. Also there are Haswell Xeons, I actually have a few, like the E3 1220L v3.
But the board cost for something that will run ECC outright kills the idea. Ryzen has taken that spot, even with the cost of DDR4.
Ah of course, Haswell Xeons… My bad, I assumed you meant “core” parts.
Thanks
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