• @[email protected]
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    46 months ago

    QNAP is taiwanese and still providing software patches for my 8 year old NAS. I think they are reasonably trustworthy

    But i agree with you, i’m going to build my own NAS from scratch this year…

    • @Molecular0079
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      126 months ago

      I have zero trust in QNAP. QNAP knowingly sold several NASes with a known clock-drift defect in their Intel J1900 CPUs and then refused to provide any support. A bunch of community members had to figure out how to solder a resistor to temporarily revive their bricked NASes in order to retrieve their data. https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=135089

      I had a TS-453 Pro and my friend had a TS-451. Both mine and his exhibited this issue and refused to boot. After this debacle and the extreme apathy from their support, I vowed to never buy a pre-built NAS.

      • @resetbypeer
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        56 months ago

        Not to mention the sheer amount of security vulnerabilities they constantly have in their products. I never recommend QNAP for that reason. Out of the box solutions I only recommend Synology. Selfbuild route is uraid and my personal fav. Truenas scale.

        • @nexusband
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          16 months ago

          Get an x86 Qnap and put Truenas Scale on it - there is no case in that form factor in existence.

        • @nexusband
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          16 months ago

          Get an x86 Qnap and put Truenas Scale on it - there is no case in that form factor in existence.

            • @nexusband
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              16 months ago

              Does this have a backplane?

              • @phrogpilot73
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                16 months ago

                More than likely. Since the description clearly states “8x3.5 HDD Hot-Swap drive bays.” It’s not the only case of similar form factor that you can get 8 hot swap drive bays. There are literally tons of NAS case designs to choose from.

                • @nexusband
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                  16 months ago

                  I’ve had a look and sadly, they are not available in Europe (at least for any reasonable price).

                  • @phrogpilot73
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                    16 months ago

                    I’ve built every NAS/home server I’ve ever had. There’s lots of options out there for the case as well. You could take an SFF Mini ITX case with a single 5 1/4" drive bay and put an icy dock 8 x 2.5" SATA backplane in it. Don’t know if icy dock (brand) is widely available in Europe…

                    Just pointing out that if you imagine it (form factor with 8 hot swappable drives) there’s probably a solution to build it from scratch.

        • @Molecular0079
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          16 months ago

          Man, I have GOT to try Truenas Scale one of these days. I see it recommended so often, but I was just too used to a standard Linux ecosystem to bother learning something new. I am assuming it gets you closer to the feel of a pre-built NAS during administration tasks compared to Cockpit and a SSH session lmao.

          I think I am just always afraid of being locked into a specific way of doing things by a vendor. I feel like I would get annoyed if something that I could do easily on standard Linux was harder to do on Truenas Scale.

          • @resetbypeer
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            26 months ago

            For sure. It’s basically a NAS software appliance. You just need to bring your own x86 hardware. Truenas core was good, but they will stop actively developing soon in favor for scale.

            I have it running both hardware (backup) as well as virtualized (with a special sas/sata card as PCI pass thru). Works like a charm.

      • @nexusband
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        16 months ago

        Do it anyway and put an x86 OS on one of the “standard UEFI” versions. There’s no other Hardware better on the market for this - even self build isn’t going to come close, there’s simply no case with 8 hotswap slots (for example).