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> I'd love a consumer (price) level NAS where the OS can be ripped out and replaced with some vanilla OS/kernel.

Are there any good options today? I keep thinking of picking up a NAS, but I really do not want to use a proprietary vendor OS that might feel entitled to scan my data for useless/hostile cloud integrations. Or might have left some hardcoded password backdoors.

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Ugreen NAS - currently on kickstarter for this summer - but it's a reputable company.

https://nas.ugreen.com/pages/ugreen-nas-storage-preheat

Their hardware is dramatically better at the price points then the alternatives - even if they do have some comprimises.

Wow, those hardware specs are nice. What compromises do you refer to, specifically? I think that the 8GB ram and 128GB flash cache are on the small side, but both are user-replaceable so not that big a deal.

The only thing I really miss here is ECC ram, but that's entirely due to Intel's market segmentation and not something they can change, save by completely changing their platform vendor.

Interesting! Unfortunately no power draw numbers.

I ended up downgrading my chunky Supermicro server to a cheap Chinese AOOSTAR with an Intel N100 for $199[0], and slapped in an NVMe drive and extra RAM. Since I only need 8-9TB of storage, a zpool mirror worked perfectly for my use case. The build quality is mediocre but the product is more than adequate for my home NAS use case.

[0] https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-r1-2bay-nas-intel-n100-...

Newer TerraMaster models also come with an internal USB port and flash drive that can be replaced. They’re basically an Intel NUC with a storage controller. I’ve got the F4-423 on my shopping list for when my Synology DS-415+ finally dies.

From the same site https://codedbearder.com/posts/nixos-terramaster-f2-221/

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