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On Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 7:49 PM Alan Grimes <alonzotg@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Hey, my old NAS box croaked the other day. I had to spend $400 ond |
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> hardware and software to recover my data but the issue now is finding a |
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> good new NAS solution. |
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> Use is basically media server + backup provider. |
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> I was happy with my old Netgear ReadyNAS idiot-proof box until it died. |
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> Any experience with products on the market? |
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Not a recommendation precisely but there's a guy on YouTube named Jeff |
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Geerling that's doing a lot of that sort of thing using a Raspberry Pi and |
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multiple SATA drives. I've just built my first RP4 box aimed at |
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astrophotography and I'm pretty impressed with how well the Pi works. My |
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next project will likely be some sort of NAS box using a second Pi4 with an |
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M.2 system drive. |
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There is a bootable Gentoo image for the Pi4. It was pretty zippy but it's |
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a year and a half old so if you're fixated on Gentoo you'd have a lot of |
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work to do vs using Ubuntu server or something prebuilt. |
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HTH, |
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Mark |
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