Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes
Hi,
On 15/05/2014 3:16 AM, Alexander Pohl wrote:
> Could you please elaborate on the reasons why Synology boxes are not yet
> supported by the Debian installer images and where the problems are to
> implement support in the future.
I know this is the debian-arm list, but how about a suggestion for an
alternative box in the NAS type category......
I've had good success, after working through some issues, with Thecus
N4800Eco [0] boxes. I've installed 4x 4TB disks (5TB drives [2] are
compatible, most likely 6TB will be fine too) and they have a 1GB
/special/ SATA device that presents as /dev/sda. Would that suit your
needs?
What I've done is install Debian Wheezy with /boot and grub on the 1GB
drive -- created a 2 way mirror with a small LVM volume that has root on
it and also a dd backup of the 1GB drive (when unmounted). Oh and the
LVM is on a crypt volume -- I am using dropbear to mount it via ssh
using a key file so I can manually enter my luks key.
So far I think this is really good, but it is a pretty new box still and
I'm not quite ready to put it to real work just yet ... aside from doing
extensive testing of the installed hard disk drives using the dropbear
environment with badblocks testing of all SATA devices.
Whilst it did take some working out, the end solution is pretty good and
the box uses a decent Intel CPU [2], much easier with non ARM CPUs and
with LTS support happening for Squeeze, well if that works out, then
Wheezy too on amd64 arch .... this should be a nice longish term
solution -- sure beats the pants off the old D-Link DNS-343 unit it will
replace.
I did a backup of the original Thecus software on the 1GB drive's
content, but I never used the device with the Thecus supplied software
at all.
[0] http://www.thecus.com/product.php?PROD_ID=83
[1]
http://www.thecus.com/download/compatibility/hdd/N4520SERIES_N2800_N4800_N4800Eco_N5550_N4510U_N7510_HDD_SSD_list.pdf
[2] Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D2701 @ 2.13GHz
Cheers
A.
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