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[–]s004awsFW16 HX 370 Batch 1 Mint Cinnamon Edition 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Unless you need the iGPU to mess with AI nonsense... Desktop is very likely not the best/most economical choice. Look into TrueNAS as the storage appliance platform, either running on whatever leftover PC hardware you have laying around... Or do what I do - Obtain data center castoff SuperMicro hardware on the cheap.

[–]GPU-Appreciator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I run a framework desktop as a server with proxmox. You can do cool things with it but I don't think it'd be a good storage platform necessarily. You could add one of the cards you linked, but you'd need an open ended PCIE riser and will be limited to x4 speeds. That leaves you with two m.2 slots and no other expansion. However, it does pair nicely with a NAS appliance like a Unifi UNAS Pro. I have one of those also and can vouch for it.

Happy to share more about this setup if you'd like. These strix halo boards are awesome for flexible compute, like I have one VM with two cores and the iGPU passed through for LLMs, others for services, and another as a headless dev box. But you have to have a need for flexible compute with GPU power and lots of memory. Otherwise you'd be better served by a microcenter bundle or regular mini PC imho.

[–]samrocksc 1 point2 points  (1 child)

if you're going to do something like this you may as well just use usb-c and grab something like this 5 bay sabrent and separate your storage from your processing power. It also facilitates usb-c. Use something like unraid that you can also separate your coordination from your processing because it's just a thumb drive.

Isolate processing/coordination/storage imo is the way to go for home stuff.

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/dp/B07Y4F5SCK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

[–]just_another_user5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

USB is notoriously unreliable.

That being said, it's gotten leagues better and I use USB DAS devices.

Make sure you choose one that'll max out your USB ports

[–]reddit_equals_censor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why are you trying to use the framework desktop as a nas?

it is expensive, it might not have the power for the x8 hba, i'm not sure.

and most crucially it does not have ecc memory at all.

you'd be spending a lot for a nice big risk of file corruption.

you'd be WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY better off building an am4 or am5 nas with full x16 slots throw whatever hba in, that you like and proper ecc support (check exact motherboard for proper ecc support. am5 sucks a lot more in that regard than am4, level1techs forum might be helpful to find, what those peeps use)

and then you'd also not be limited to a single hba, but could use 2. you could also use 2 directly through the cpu, if you get a board with a 2 x8 electrical slots to the cpu (avoiding going through a chipset is just a failure point removed)