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I think you want a Synology or QNAP device at that point. I bought one of these for $550: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-932px https://www.qnap.com/en-u
by MichaelBurge 5y ago
I think you want a Synology or QNAP device at that point. I bought one of these for $550:
https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-932px https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-932px
5 HDDs and 4 SSDs for caching, with 10gbit fiber or 2.5gbit ethernet.
I have 40 terabytes of storage in mine(21TB free). If I ever fill it up, I'll probably buy an actual storage server with ~500TB of drives.
- sliken 5y agoCan you run debian or similar on the ts-932px so that when synology dies, merges, abandons the ts-932px, is bought, or just changes their mind that I can switch to something with updates?
- MichaelBurge 5y agoThe QNAP OS is already a variant of Linux, so with enough work you could make it run anything you want. I haven't tried or looked for instructions on it, though. But, the data is more important than the OS here. And the filesystem is a variant of ext4 and there's some instructions floating around on how to mount drives on an external standard Linux machine to recover said data in the event of a disaster. You should also back up the data regularly so it doesn't matter if the hardware or company fail.
- sliken 5y agoWell the trick is, can a user do it themselves. Is there a locked bootloader? Proprietary binaries? Etc. I'd be find with a vendor linux, but vendors tend to get bored with older products, drop support, go bankrupt, get purchased, revoke previously promised functionality, have security holes in their addons, etc.