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Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by essell@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Thanks to this community I've learned and I'm feeling inspired. I've loved having an NAS for the last few years, but it's woefully under powered for what I'm using it for these days.

So I've ordered some basic PC parts, gonna build a basic setup using an old CPU I got lying about and try the NAS OS I saw talked about on here recently.

TrueNAS looks like a good option with only slight fears it'll go down the well known path to the dark side like so many free options before.

In any event, I'm looking forward to adding Nextcloud and Jellyfin, to trying out Docker and generally having more control over things.

Thanks again to you all for informing and inspiring.

I'll be back if I get questions!

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[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity as an owner of a QNAP NAS, how did it go out? Any signs it was in its last legs? Now that I’ve used one, the form factor is the only thing better than most options out there when I got it.

Nowadays all QNAP, Sinology and other NAS vendors supposedly offer a lot of extra value with their cloud options, but I find them a sure way to get hacked based on the average company’s investment in security (I work in IT, it is a sad affair sometimes) combined with all the ransomware specifically targeting them due to old packages they rely on = I’ll build my next system from the ground up, even if the initial cost is higher and the result is uglier.

[–] Sproutling@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was this nasty Intel clock drift bug: https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=157459

Support was completely unresponsive and refused to do anything. Didn't even acknowledge the issue AFAIK. I tried to add the resistor but my copy of the NAS didn't expose the right pins so I couldn't even solder them on if I wanted to. Then I tried mounting my drives into another Linux machine, at which point I realized they were using some custom version of LVM that didn't work with standard Linux. I ended up having to buy a new QNAP NAS just to retrieve my data and then I returned it.

After that, I swore off proprietary NASes. If I can't easily retrieve data from perfectly good drives, it is an absolute no go.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I can’t easily retrieve data from perfectly good drives, it is an absolute no go.

I've run the same md-raid array in three different machines (ok, I've added and swapped a couple drives, but still). I love that about md-raid. Pull the drives out of one system, stick them into another system with mdadm installed, and it recognizes the array immediately.