Still looking for a usable NAS for Ubuntu 23.04

[Jay Ridgley]

On 8/5/23 05:14, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Hi Jay,
> 
> On Fri, 2023-08-04 at 17:17 -0500, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>> Since I have been trying to find a NAS unit that will work "out of
>> the
>> box" or with minor tuning with Ubuntu 2.04. It appears that a
>> replacement MyBook MIGHT work but I am not clear if that is true.
>>
> 
> It largely depends on what you expect out of a NAS box.


Thanks Tony,

All I really want it for is to backup several systems on my network.

I appreciate the response, I will check them out. Which one of them are 
you using, and is it still in production? Is there any problems, with 
current models, that you are aware of?

Kind regards,
Jay
> 
> I don't have any experience of the two devices you mentioned so can't
> help you with those.
> 
> I've been using a Synology NAS box for a number of years now. I mainly
> use for backing up my PC using backintime. It works very well for that.
> 
> I know it supports NFS (4) and SMB as well as allowing you to set aside
> and area of disk and mount it as a raw disk (I can't remember the name
> of this technology at the moment).
> 
> It supports a variety of RAID levels including Synology's own RAID
> which is what I'm using (4 x 4TB disks yielding 12GB usable space with
> single disk failure tolerance).
> 
>> My friendly computer repair shop dropped support for Linux about 2
>> months ago and I no longer have any help available, locally.
> 
> That's a real shame.
> 
>> I am waiting to purchase any more hardware until I KNOW it will work.
> 
> Very wise!
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
> 

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