[ale] DIY NAS vs Boxed NAS?

[Raylynn Knight]

Almost all NAS sold today are running Linux, so you can make it yours if you desire.  Root access to QNAP, Synology and Netgear NAS systems is relatively easy.

Ray



> On Dec 1, 2018, at 12:26 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
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> +1^n 
> 
> Buying a nas is like using a mac. Sure. It's easy. Until it's not.
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> Building a nas makes it yours.
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> On November 30, 2018 9:27:12 PM EST, Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> On 11/30/18 3:26 PM, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
>> Given the proliferation of various boxed NAS devices like Synology,
>> QNAP, etc. 
>> 
> Avoid them all. I have never seen such a device used where a situation didn't eventually arise where it wouldn't have been a crisis if it had instead been a proper admin-controlled Linux system running Samba, NFS, etc. 
> 
> The horrors come down to one simple characteristic: having your *only* access to the shared filesystem be over the network using the associated protocol. An enterprise-grade 26-drive file server I built for A Previous Employertm was able to scan its shared-out filesystem for viruses using ClamAV at over 200MiB/s and was awesome for performing searches for files that a user had misplaced due to an errant mouse drag. It made squashfs files as online backups every night in parallel with printing to tape over a captive net shared with an auxiliary warm-spare file server and a derelict Sun Sunfire connected to a SCSI tape library.
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> I could go on and on but really, prefab NASses are for people who don't have a way to do anything else. That's perfectly fine, of course - but we run Linux to not be constrained like that.
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