On: I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS

[granra]

I also use the NAS for some light server workloads and it was just annoyingly slow when running on a USB 2.0 thumb drive. System updates took forever too.

Edit: I want to add though that the main reason behind this is "for fun" :D

[mfsch → granra]

You could still move e.g. /nix to the BTRFS disks and only keep /boot on the thumb drive, no? That’s more or less how I have NixOS set up with ZFS. But your solution is of course much fancier :D

[granra → mfsch]

That would be too loud imo :p

I started using hd-idle to spin down the drives when idle for 30 minutes even.

I do however run my system with root on tmpfs and have various data persisted on the SSD.

[kylemart → mfsch]

Could you share more about your NixOS setup, or good resources? Genuinely curious as I’m looking into building a small, low-budget Plex server running NixOS :)

[yjftsjthsd-h → granra]

> I also use the NAS for some light server workloads and it was just annoyingly slow when running on a USB 2.0 thumb drive. System updates took forever too.

Ah, fair enough - I suppose NAS/server is a bit of a continuum anyways.

> I want to add though that the main reason behind this is "for fun" :D

Yeah, that seemed more likely up front:D