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  • I have a couple Aoostar R7’s (4x in a hyper-converged ceph+cloud-hypervisor+k0s cluster, but that’s overkill for most). They have been rock solid. They also have an n100 version with less storage expansion if you don’t need it. My nodes probably idle at about 20w fully loaded with drives (2x nvme, 1x sata SSD, 1x sata HDD). Running ~15 containers and a VM or 2. You should be able to easily get 1 (plus memory and drives) for $1000. Throw proxmox and/or some NAS OS on it and you’re good to go.




  • They’ve been rock solid so far. Even through the initial sync from my old file server (pretty intensive network and disk usage for about 5 days straight). I’ve only been running them for about 3 months so far though, so time will tell. They are like most mini pc manufacturers with funny names though. I doubt I’ll ever get any sort of bios/uefi update


  • Internet:

    • 1G fiber

    Router:

    • N100 with dual 2.5G nics

    Lab:

    • 3x N100 mini PCs as k8s control plane+ceph mon/mds/mgr
    • 4x Aoostar R7 “NAS” systems (5700u/32G ram/20T rust/2T sata SSD/4T nvme) as ceph OSDs/k8s workers

    Network:

    • Hodge podge of switches I shouldn’t trust nearly as much as I do
    • 3x 8 port 2.5G switches (1 with poe for APs)
    • 1x 24 port 1G switch
    • 2x omada APs

    Software:

    • All the standard stuff for media archival purposes
    • Ceph for storage (using some manual tiering in cephfs)
    • K8s for container orchestration (deployed via k0sctl)
    • A handful of cloud-hypervisor VMs
    • Most of the lab managed by some tooling I’ve written in go
    • Alpine Linux for everything

    All under 120w power usage