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

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

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