Disclaimer: not Fedora specific. In a former life we ran our backups to QNAP NASes in a data centre. They were nice boxes with a little LED console strip on the front and for when desperate, a video out and a USB socket which would take a keyboard on the back. We were happy.
On that basis we obtained a more recent QNAP for a client. No LED text strip on the front, just a few cryptic LEDs, and nothing on the back of any use. So when it crashes its basicly a black box, maddening. Has anyone any recommendations for nice NASes for a small office? Requirements: - some kind of useful front panel - basic status at the very least, ideally some degree of control if it isn't speaking on the network - 10G ethernet, ideally 2 - NFS support - something like 8 3.5" SATA drive bays, hot swap - can run XFS natively inside - ext3 and ext4 are fragile, and we're using iSCSI to do XFS for the large backup volume at present - preferable capable of iSCSI, though if they do XFS inside then just NFS will do us The QNAPs seem to have a billion features but are a recovery nightmare to us when they have a failure (not a drive failure, that's the usual swap in a new drive RAID shuffle, I mean a crash or filesystem repair situation). The current QNAP is a few years old, BTW, but we're unhappy. Suggestions and/or experiences welcome. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
