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I would love to see more standardization for consumer NAS builds. I've been asking ASUSTOR in particular for a few years now if they'd consider building a Mini

I would love to see more standardization for consumer NAS builds. I've been asking ASUSTOR in particular for a few years now if they'd consider building a Mini ITX-compatible backplane/adapter, so you could swap out the backplane after a few years if you want. Or even Pico ITX or something, so you could swap in an SBC. I hate that after 5 or 10 years, NASes can't really be upgraded. A lot of 1 Gbps NASes could be upgraded to 2.5 Gbps or even 10 Gbps if you could swap out the motherboard, keeping the chassis out of the landfill or extending its useful life.

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sockbot 3y ago
I'd love to see Framework get into this space. It is such a HUGE waste to retire my NAS chassis and backplane when the compute portion gets too old. There could be some good synergies with the Laptop 13 mainboard, having a laptop-level TDP and with ARM possibly coming around the corner. Where I feel the risk is the market for NAS appliances doesn't feel very big ("prosumer" and mom and pop businesses?) and the differentiator really is in the software, not the hardware. i.e. People buy Synology for DSM, not the hardware. I think I read somewhere that Framework doesn't have any plans to get into vertical integration, which saddens me. I'd love to have a Framework backed OS and have things working perfectly out of the box like sleep and touchpad feel.
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zamadatix 3y ago
In that front I wish their FLASHSTOR product was a 6/12 bay NVMe add in card rather than an integrated motherboard+pcie switch+soldered CPU+soldered RAM. I'd love to just pop that kind of thing into a normal PC but all the ones I've found are either 4 porters or extremely expensive.
wil421 3y ago
Buy a Supermicro board, build your own back plane or use an off the shelf one, and add as many expansion cards as your heart desires (and mobo can handle).
justsomehnguy 3y ago
yes, but now they can't sell you a $100 chassis with mobo for $500 You answered, implicitly, it byyourself

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sockbot 3y ago

I'd love to see Framework get into this space. It is such a HUGE waste to retire my NAS chassis and backplane when the compute portion gets too old. There could be some good synergies with the Laptop 13 mainboard, having a laptop-level TDP and with ARM possibly coming around the corner. Where I feel the risk is the market for NAS appliances doesn't feel very big ("prosumer" and mom and pop businesses?) and the differentiator really is in the software, not the hardware. i.e. People buy Synology for DSM, not the hardware. I think I read somewhere that Framework doesn't have any plans to get into vertical integration, which saddens me. I'd love to have a Framework backed OS and have things working perfectly out of the box like sleep and touchpad feel.

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zamadatix 3y ago

In that front I wish their FLASHSTOR product was a 6/12 bay NVMe add in card rather than an integrated motherboard+pcie switch+soldered CPU+soldered RAM. I'd love to just pop that kind of thing into a normal PC but all the ones I've found are either 4 porters or extremely expensive.

wil421 3y ago

Buy a Supermicro board, build your own back plane or use an off the shelf one, and add as many expansion cards as your heart desires (and mobo can handle).

justsomehnguy 3y ago

yes, but now they can't sell you a $100 chassis with mobo for $500 You answered, implicitly, it byyourself