I am building an all Flash NAS and am wondering if 12G SAS SSDs still are something to consider in comparison to the much faster NVMe SSDs.
I do plan on having about 15 TB usable storage. I can get SAS SSDs for 67 CHF/TB but NVMe SSDs cost me at least 100 CHF/TB. (Or basically double that because i‘d be doing a 2-way mirror for each vdev.)
This is for basic documents and photography. Maybe some GIS datasets but nothing really needs extremely fast storage. All SSD, because i want something silent, hate hearing HDDs clicking away.
Are SAS SSDs still viable in 2025? I mean, they should be able to saturate the 10Gb network connection, maybe even come close to 25G. What am i missing if i go SAS instead of NVMe? Is the price difference still...
I am building an all Flash NAS and am wondering if 12G SAS SSDs still are something to consider in comparison to the much faster NVMe SSDs.
I do plan on having about 15 TB usable storage. I can get SAS SSDs for 67 CHF/TB but NVMe SSDs cost me at least 100 CHF/TB. (Or basically double that because i‘d be doing a 2-way mirror for each vdev.)
This is for basic documents and photography. Maybe some GIS datasets but nothing really needs extremely fast storage. All SSD, because i want something silent, hate hearing HDDs clicking away.
Are SAS SSDs still viable in 2025? I mean, they should be able to saturate the 10Gb network connection, maybe even come close to 25G. What am i missing if i go SAS instead of NVMe? Is the price difference still worth the speed increases of NVMe?
Sadly i cannot rely on used parts since that market is non-existent for parts like these here. And importing is expensive.