Large Format Projectionist<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NAS</span></a> experts:<br>I'm thinking of abandoning my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rpi5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rpi5</span></a> ZFS NAS project because the 8-bay drive box has no software-controlled power switch. I can gracefully shut down the brain and save the data, but can't cut the enormous draw on the UPS. Seems counter-productive.</p><p>So I'm going to return the drive-stack, and try for a used <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SuperMicro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SuperMicro</span></a> 1U and run <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrueNAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrueNAS</span></a> on it.</p><p>I actually might save money with this plan.</p><p>Should I just shoot myself now? Other 1U ideas? (Ext. noise, heat, and power are concerns.)</p>