04-18-2020, 07:43 PM
(02-06-2020, 09:36 PM)matosys Wrote: God please, no. Helios64 is a bad product from my point of view. They lost track of what people want from a NAS device: Data Security! Without proper ECC support, Copy on Write loses it's purpose, since Data can be corrupted inside the Caches or RAM. Clobbering together some wacky ECC-RAM-via-Special-Control-Bus-Solution does NOT help. It leaves Caches unprotected and ... how the heck do they even want to make this work? This is never going to get into mainline, let alone *BSD. Helios4 was checking all the boxes, reasonably fast and secure.
Helios64 though is not a safe haven to store your data and backups, but some media center server for storing your movies and streaming stuff.
Basically, you could use a External RAID Direct Access Storage for 150$ + a RPi/RockPro64/... , and achieve the same level of performance and security.
I'm going to spend some time looking into the options available for NAS/Media Servers later. Maybe there is some price region available for a product with certain capabilities.
According to the project devs the Helios64 is going to have ECC support later on in the form of "special DDR chips that have ECC built-in" as put by one of the project devs. Currently the modules are not available until Q4 of 2020. Does this change your opinion on the Helios64 regarding Data Security?