I am planning to install a non-QNAP NAS OS on a 4-bay QNAP. Your opinions are great to learn.
The ideas are from nascompare.com（link）and this blog.
This thread on forums.lawrencesystems.com also mentioned a fan issue which was solved by setting the fan speed to "auto" on its BIOS.
Hardware information:
CPU: 4-core Celeron
RAM: 8-16GB non-ECC laptop RAMs
Drives: 2 x HDDs (as data drives) + 2 x Micron enterprise SSDs (as boot drive);
OR 3 x HDDs + 1 Micron SSD (as boot drive).
OS: TrueNAS Scale, OpenMediaVault OR unRaid.
Purpose: SMB v3.x and NFS v3/v4 server as the target of the backup software on 1-3 desktop computers and < 3 VMs.
Considerations:
(1) Because of non-ECC RAMs, ZFS and Btrfs will be only used on RAID1 or non-raid single drive;
(2) If using 2 SSDs on RAID1 as boot drive, the 2 HDDs will be RAID1;
(3) If using 1 SSD as boot drive, the 3 HDDs will be on RAID5 and ext4 as FS;
(4) Which NAS OS is easier to manage?
Update on 2/7: Some discussions(link) mentioned an IT8528 chip used on QNAP and package "QNAP-EC" (link). The Qnap library file, which it mentioned, can be found in the current QNAP QTS folder. But the lawrencesystems.com forum thread solved the fan speed issue by only setting it to "auto" on BIOS.
The ideas are from nascompare.com（link）and this blog.
This thread on forums.lawrencesystems.com also mentioned a fan issue which was solved by setting the fan speed to "auto" on its BIOS.
Hardware information:
CPU: 4-core Celeron
RAM: 8-16GB non-ECC laptop RAMs
Drives: 2 x HDDs (as data drives) + 2 x Micron enterprise SSDs (as boot drive);
OR 3 x HDDs + 1 Micron SSD (as boot drive).
OS: TrueNAS Scale, OpenMediaVault OR unRaid.
Purpose: SMB v3.x and NFS v3/v4 server as the target of the backup software on 1-3 desktop computers and < 3 VMs.
Considerations:
(1) Because of non-ECC RAMs, ZFS and Btrfs will be only used on RAID1 or non-raid single drive;
(2) If using 2 SSDs on RAID1 as boot drive, the 2 HDDs will be RAID1;
(3) If using 1 SSD as boot drive, the 3 HDDs will be on RAID5 and ext4 as FS;
(4) Which NAS OS is easier to manage?
Update on 2/7: Some discussions(link) mentioned an IT8528 chip used on QNAP and package "QNAP-EC" (link). The Qnap library file, which it mentioned, can be found in the current QNAP QTS folder. But the lawrencesystems.com forum thread solved the fan speed issue by only setting it to "auto" on BIOS.
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