Re: choosing low-power/low-noise/free NAS servers to run Debian
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On 12/04/16 14:15, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 04/12/2016 10:20 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> How many can be upgraded to Debian and operated with 100% free
>> software, no binary firmware blobs at all? Is there any
>> comparison table that is useful for people buying these things
>> with the intention of running free software?
>
> I have a Netgear ReadyNAS 104 here that runs Debian. The only part
> that I didn't replace is the bootloader. Mine has an ancient
> U-Boot, but there might be newer revisions that are already dt
> aware. Minimal support for that machine is supported by barebox,
> but I didn't dare to replace U-Boot yet (because I have problems
> booting via UART).
>
> The NAS is driven by an Marvell Armada 370 SoC and up to now you
> need a binary blob to initialize RAM.
>
> IMHO the not-so-nice thing with commercially available NAS boxes is
> that they are all a bit short on RAM. Mine has 512 MiB.
>
Yes, I had noticed that, apart from the Synology DS2015xs
Are many of them user-upgradeable though?
> Something I was surprised at is that scp is quite noticeable slower
> than unencrypted transfers.
>
Using the factory OS or with Debian? Did you see any clue about the
bottleneck, e.g. does CPU usage peak?
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