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Nvm, apparently mine is using a different subnet, thats why lol.
The 144x range is a mixed bag it appears. I can access netflix and some shows but not all.
I usually prefer ASUS products due to better engineering in the cooling department, especially when we are talking crammed stuff like mini laptops or PCs.
Is ASUS better than MSI (laptops) in keeping cool or similar?
I believe so, I have a rog strix i use for mining, both GPU and CPU maxed out and it rarely goes above 67 degrees. A friend of mine has an MSI for gaming, a bit older model, though, and sometimes shuts down in summer.
It seems good enough for PN50 that would have RAID-1 config.
IMO RAID 1 sucks. It creates more problems than it solves, does not improve performance and you would be better off with regular backups (which you need to have anyway) in most situations.
The "better off" part is simply that if a drive dies, your system isn't down while you scramble to get a new drive in it. You have time to replace it and rebuild it vs everything dying completely. RAID is obviously not a backup, but RAID 1 is better than nothing. I'm pretty sure it also gives increased read IOPS/speeds in certain situations, but for most SSDs I believe it's minimal.
Yes, but:
1. The raid controller can fail and corrupt all data, introducing a SPoF;
2. You already have your backups on a disk, so, the downtime would be the time to copy the back-ups on another drive, then restore on the second drive you had the back-ups on and then go buy a new drive to store your back-ups on presuming you don't have one ready;
3. Where uptime is critical, by all means, use raid 1 with 4 spares, but I bet other, more performant and reliable, solutions would be used. For home usage, nope, it is not worth it in most scenarios.
You use it in production where the cost from interrupting production is way worse than off hours cost and maintenance. Shit breaks, all your labour is sitting around twiddling their thumbs. A disk breaks in raid 1, you finish your day and fix it after production shift is over.
This should be fairly obvious to anyone looking at raid. Cost and hassle is nothing compared to unexpected interruption.
Edit: cats already said above.
So... 'something is pointless except for when it's not'. Good point.
The point being this is a discussion about the home device. When we are talking about hosting at home on a mini pc, we are not talking about Paypal or the Pentagon here. In this particular context, RAID 1 can do more harm than good. And you DO need back-ups anyway.
Thanks @cats @Maounique @AXYZE - took me a few weeks but eventually got all the components, went with an Asus PN50 in the end, AMD 4700U (8 core) processor barebones - and then added 16GB RAM (Crucial) 3200Mhz and an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD. Completely happy with it, fan noise isn't even noticeable and while I had issues with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and ethernet not working easily, Ubuntu 21.04 worked straight away.
Thanks for all the advice, really happy with this piece of kit
GB4 benchmark... which quite easily beats almost and of my hosted VPS plans at the moment:
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Yet-Another-Bench-Script
v2021-10-09
https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
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Sat Oct 9 19:32:00 IST 2021
Basic System Information:
Processor : AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics
CPU cores : 8 @ 1400.000 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 15.1 GiB
Swap : 4.0 GiB
Disk : 114.8 GiB
Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
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Single Core | 5593
Multi Core | 27394
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16375246`
^^ I've tried to format this in a nice yellow box like everyone else, but cannot find the correct mark-up!
Good choice! If you will need more space in future then use USB-C - these ports on this matchine are rated for 10Gbps so its noticeably faster than SATA You can get NVMe 10Gbps USB-C enclosure for like $15-$20 on Aliexpress. Im using couple of them because, I had many small NVMe drives from laptops that were upgraded. Now I have blazing fast pendrives xD
Forgot to mention, or maybe I did, that the 2.5GbE Realtek chip in these are usually not supported via 20.04, but you can install the driver from Realtek's site and they work great!
Glad to hear it's working well, it's insanely fast for a little machine that sips power for sure! I would've gone higher spec but that's just me, I have my 4500U Gigabyte BRIX decked out with 32GB and a 500GB NVMe SSD (Samsung 970 EVO I had sitting around), it's a SOLID little box.