[ale] DIY NAS vs Boxed NAS?

[Jim Kinney]

+1^n 

Buying a nas is like using a mac. Sure. It's easy. Until it's not.

Building a nas makes it yours.

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 Employer^tm 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.
>
>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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