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Setting up a free micro-cloud using the Terramaster F2-423

... do not depend on the NAS manufacturer. What has changed ... their hand-bought servers, on NAS's and Raspberry Pi. ... generally accepted norm in the NAS world for small businesses ... migrate data from Terramaster to QNAP, Synology, Asustor or a ... software without waiting for the NAS manufacturer to adapt them ... , the requirements for the NAS in this case are decreasing ... and most importantly, now the NAS manufacturer can't "hook ... services and software r/selfhosted - Reddit community Terramaster F2-423 is ...
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Short and sweet: how to choose a RAID/HBA controller for the server

RAID controllers have not left and are not going to, on the contrary, hardware controllers for NVME and PCI Express drives (including M2 format drives) are entering the market. The abundance of drives and software features of RAID/HBA make you approach this choice as responsibly as possible, otherwise you may lose data. RAID controllers have not left and are not going to, on the contrary, hardware controllers for NVME and PCI Express drives (including M2 format drives) are entering the ...
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QNAP TS-262 - Little hero of a small office

... , the QNAP TS-262 is probably the only NAS in its ... , and the data transfer rate to the expansion card is ... ones to install in RAID-1 and read/write caching from ... for the needs of software RAID and data exchange over ... supported. This includes a similar QNAP NAS, an FTP/RSYNC/Samba ... natural disaster, meteorite fall, etc.). QNAP HBS3 supports configurable versioning and ... them to competitor services. QNAP HBS3 supports configurable versioning and ... Web-interface. LXD - no QNAP also supports Kubernetes, but this ...
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What can Synology be replaced with in the conditions of sanctions. Part 2: Choosing a software

The most difficult thing is not even to pick up packages to replace Synology services with free ones, but to support their work, promptly responding to glitches and updates. This is not an easy, but doable task that can be completed in a few weeks. Installing applications, configuring services Having planned the storage, I proceed to installing the software. Docker is already installed, and now I will install MergerFS and SnapRAID file system support for the archived data array. For example ...
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What can Synology be replaced with in the conditions of sanctions. Part 1: Choosing a stable platform.

... if you used the NAS's of this company ... of an operating system for NAS, which it sold as ... Synology even has  2-controller NAS  and  iSCSI SAN  solutions ... business NAS's, the most relevant to Synology is QNAP. These ... improving and finishing, plus, QNAP has RAID 50/60, multi-layer ... operating system project for NAS that is designed to ... displace QNAP and Synology from the multi-disk NAS market ... not a solution for NAS, but from my point ... hardware, especially since modern RAID controllers give flexibility in ...
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Terra Master F2-221 2-bay NAS review - an inexpensive solution for the home/SOHO

A simple inexpensive NAS that has Plex, Owncloud, Nextcloud services, supports Docker, cloud management and its own backup system for Windows and Linux clients. It can work absolutely silently by turning off its fan. Terra Master is a relatively new brand in the market of data storage systems for home and small businesses. The company started its journey in 2014, and unlike most of its rivals, it did not focus only on NAS, but immediately offered models and DAS families with a Thunderbolt ...
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Discovering the features of QNAP QGD-3014 - a hybrid of a PoE switch and a NAS

... something ultramodern. In general, QNAP loves experiments, and so far ... reflect. Design QNAP calls its brainchild not a NAS, but an ... other network switches, the QNAP QGD-3014 looks just beautiful ... is primarily a NAS, so attributes such as RAID 0/1/ ... Interfaces QNAP has been implementing the idea of using a NAS as ... the Docker NAS network, which runs its own QNAP NVR applications ... is allocated in the QNAP interface to manage the ... the common QNAP interface. Video surveillance Today, QNAP offers a modern ...
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Using the ECS Liva Q1 micro-computer as a home server

Today we will talk about the ECS Liva Q1 micro-computer, a model for office tasks with a 4-core Pentium N4200 processor, 4 GB of RAM, Wi-Fi 802.11n and two 1GBase-T network ports, which is ideal for creating an Edge server for VPN, Wi-Fi, NAS and smart home. Today, during the shortage of computer components, against the background of the general rise in price of everything and everything, the computer has turned into the same luxury item as a sports car or a golf club subscription. However, ...
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Review of Icy Dock ICY Dock MB508SP-B - 8 bay cage for 2.5 inch SAS/SATA drives

Icy Dock company is the most famous manufacturer of disk cages for HDD and SSD, widely known for its series of metal cases for hard drives ToughArmor, which could drive a car without damaging the drives. Today, when it seems that the world has already completely switched to SSD, and Name M.2 boards are replacing SATA SSDs, there are still reasons for choosing 2.5-inch hard drives. This is a relatively inexpensive volume, which is provided by SATA models with a capacity of 4 TB, and high ...
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Review of ASRock Rack EPC621D6U-2T16R server motherboard for 30+ drives

Extremely interesting server motherboard of Micro ATX format with built-in SAS controller. It can connect 30 SATA devices plus 1 NVME plus PCI Express via the Slimline port and output data via the integrated Intel X550-T2 10 Gigabit LAN controller. Today we are reviewing the ASRockRack motherboard, which is designed for those who assemble a Big Data server or storage system for hundreds of Terabytes. The EPC621D6U-2T16R model resembles the previously considered That is, using only one ...