One of my favorite measures for hardware is the 'price/performance ratio' - to do as much as possible but for as less resources as possible. Hardware Not so long ago I switched to Silent Fanless Dell Wyse 3030 LT FreeBSD Server for both of my 'local' backup and 'remotew52' backup boxes ... but rules of…

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The post explores an efficient and low-power NAS solution using a combination of different hardware, including the Silent Fanless Dell Wyse 3030 LT, HP EliteDesk 705 G4, and the GenMachine model Ren5000 with AMD Ryzen CPUs. The author emphasizes the importance of the price/performance ratio and details a backup strategy using the '4.1 - 2 - 1 - 1' rule, combining local, offsite, online, and offline backups to ensure data redundancy. Power management optimizations and the inclusion of an EATON 3S Mini UPS are also discussed.

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<p>I’m definitely going to bookmark this.</p>


<p>Always nice to look for power efficiency but you don’t have a lot of choice with small devices in term of data storage. That’s why I decided to build a NAS with a more standard format with a node 304 case where you can use any disk size</p>
