It is enterprise..., not maybe also SoHo, but I guess it is mostly people with job title 'Senior Purchaser' or so deal with this stuff. Not their own money. But another clear sign on the wall that it is the wrong direction. M.2 M-key is widely adopted standard, people have free choice I would say, instead companies like Synology find ways to create sort of vendor lock-in, at least that is my current understanding. Same as article author of tomshardware.com, I don't see why at least SoHo or non-commercial organizations like universities or so should let themselves rip-off.https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compone ... d-criteriaSynology starts selling overpriced 1.6 TB SSDs for $535 — self-branded, archaic PCIe 3.0 SSDs the only option to meet 'certified' criteria
While not every SSD works in a Pi 5 hat, there are plenty that do at much lower prices.
Since it's PCIe 3, I wonder if that Synology SSD as well as expensive is also hat compatible.
Also for RPL, it goes in wrong direction w.r.t. NAS IMO. People want cheap, need to buy HATs or USB adaptors before they have a NAS. Ofcourse enabling a samba server on your (rooted) Google Nexus1 with a 32GB Sd card is also a NAS. I had that in that past. But if it is about storage only, I would say people should focus on the storage component first. The N100 RPI size? and looking X board is easy plug-and-play I think w.r.t. an RPL 2230 NVMe, so no HAT needed. Disadvantage is that N100 can produce a lot of heat, so added (hidden) cost is heasink. CPU is on bottom, so my dream is to find or get or make some piece of RPi sized metal with a halfpipe? 22mm hole in it so I can fit it to the 4 meter long waterpipe in the basement. Iron I can do myself, but aluminum is more difficult, but less corrosion risk.
Another funny thing is, how much TBW do people need? I think many buy SATA or NVME SSD devices that last longer than they will live. Has been calculated before, I think 1TB Samsung 840 Evo is good example. I have one, is currently gathering dust, but could connect it to the SATA connector of my BananaPi M1 that did cost me 5 Euro ( + 10 euro for package delivery). Is only 32-bit CPU (dual Cortex-A9), that is a bit of a problem for me at least.
Statistics: Posted by redvli — Wed Jul 02, 2025 8:54 am