• @9488fcea02a9
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    43 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…

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      123 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.

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        53 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.

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          13 months ago

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

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          13 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.

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            23 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.

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          13 months ago

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

      • @9488fcea02a9
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        43 months ago

        Wow, did not know this…

        I think i will accelerate my plans for a new NAS lol

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        13 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).