I have an old QNAP and I hate it. It’s full of proprietary software that can’t be removed, and is slow, probably because it doesn’t have SSDs. It’s, I think, RAID1.
Basically just need something to back up my data on my local network that has encryption. Open source is always nice as well. Simple and fast!
I just got a cheap Beelink minipc and slapped external HDDs on it — comes with a decent SSD inside and a slot for SATAIII drive inside too.
I’m running Debian on it, but FreeNAS/TrueNAS Community would have worked as well.
1 vote against truenas scale. I am happy now that it’s setup, but it was such a pain to get working. The GUI insisted that the disks had no serial numbers, but I could see them clearly in the commandline. I had to commandline setup the zfs, which they dont doco, and it has diverged from the published BSD instructions.
I also get the impression that unless you are using commercial grade stuff, truenas dont want anything to do with you.
Do you really need encryption if its all local? You should be able to trust your network is safe, so encryption in transit is the most you need to worry about? And if your NAS is on 24/7 its decrypted 24/7 anyway, so no real win having disk encryption.
The encryption is so if someone breaks in and takes off with your hardware, they don’t get your data too.
Of course, my backup software encrypts anyway, so I don’t bother to do volume encryption.
Volume encryption would either mean typing a password at boot, or needing to use the TPM, which would get stolen with the NAS, so either very inconvenient, or useless.
And I dont think anyone breaking in to steal a NAS is going to do it to read the data, they’ll sell the hardware for cash. Anyone who would break in for the data is likely a far more sophisticated threat, which is a bit paranoid.
