[talk] NAS hardware

[Ipsen S Ripsbusker]

Jan Schaumann writes:
> Sounds like a good use case for a small Synology.
>
> I have a DS218+ with two 4TB drives, nightly backing up my Apple Time
> Capsule as well my VPS remotely via rsync from cron.
> https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS218+
> https://twitter.com/jschauma/status/1036654353023725571

Jim Thompson writes:
> There are nano-itx boards with dual M.2 ‘M’ key (PCIe x4, SATA).
> Drives in a 2280 form-factor are available to 1TB.

Is there a particular Synology or Nano-ITX board on which I could easily
run a BSD operating system (or at least any free operating system)?

Since I have such little data, I guess anything will really do, but
I have gotten fed up with dealing with hardware that manufacturers
won't support, so I would rather get something advertised to work with
free software.

For $170 I can get this, which fits two 3.5" disks and is supposed
to work on NetBSD.
https://www.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-4gb-single-board-computer
https://www.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-metal-desktopnas-casing
https://www.pine64.org/?product=fan-for-rockpro64-metal-desktopnas-casing
https://www.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-12v-5a-us-power-supply
https://www.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-pci-e-to-dual-sata-ii-interface-card
https://www.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-20mm-mid-profile-heatsink
https://www.pine64.org/?product=fan-for-rockpro64-20mm-mid-profile-heatsink

And then the next price level up seems to be like $1,000, which would
get me a FreeNAS or a GNU/Linux desktop (without the hard drives).