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When my bosses want to know why a quote for a device like a NAS is thousands and thousands of dollars instead of hundreds of dollars I use examples like this.
by jcpham2 3y ago
When my bosses want to know why a quote for a device like a NAS is thousands and thousands of dollars instead of hundreds of dollars I use examples like this.
Running consumer gear, especially public facing internet consumer gear is just asking for trouble.
TrueNAS/FreeNAS whatever it’s called these days - a real OS with real vendor and community support keeping the project alive and up to date is just necessary.
Buying these consumer devices that are set and forget with limited or zero firmware updates is BAD. Not to mention the code quality and unknown closed source backdoors
- lyu07282 3y ago> TrueNAS/FreeNAS whatever it’s called these days - a real OS with real vendor and community support keeping the project alive and up to date is just necessary. and for routers there is OpenWRT. For example Turris is built on that and provides automatic firmware updates, that's a huge security benefit for those devices: https://www.turris.com/en/ https://www.turris.com/en/
- jcpham2 3y agoHuge OpenWRT fan I’d almost even be tempted to deploy an OpenWRT device somehow as a NAS over any prebuilt consumer device. It’s build it yourself (and get what you pay for) or buy junk and similarly roll the dice. It’s not a terrible difficult value proposition to explain but there’s always the person in the room that knows just enough to not know this is something you do not introduce on your corporate network; you leave it home tucked away behind a firewall
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> I’d almost even be tempted to deploy an OpenWRT device somehow as a NAS over any prebuilt consumer device. No ZFS, but it appears to support mdadm and btrfs so that could work if you can get good hardware for it.