F6-424

100% agree with this. Ran my M2 mini as a NAS with external Thunderbolt DAS array for a year. Ended up being more of a headache for running simple NAS tasks. Ended up buying a Terramaster F6-424 to replace it. Not the biggest fan of TOS, but any dedicated NAS OS will work better for your situation.

just set up a F6-424 MAX as well. One thing I would say is upgrade the memory asap. 8GB was not cutting it for simple things. I have setup a few docker containers; glances, homarr, scrutiny, beszel , dashdot and doublecommander for qol improvements, but then went to get going with immich and with th

you may still able to recover hdd if there no encryption on the raid 1 setup by getting external enclosure and install of the drive and use app like linux reader to drive Edit: I would not recommend getting Terramaster. I would suggest getting either synology or qnap. Both are more stable and mature

you can look terramaster nas they allow you to install other OS. i recalled they have guide how to install it as well. you can looked at used hp proliant microserver. i have terramaster f6-424 nas and OS is so bad. good thing it will just file server nothing else.

I'm mostly concerned with media, but I have all kinds. Movies (some even from the 1920s), TV, music, ebooks, audiobooks, photographs, other art; I've got some of all of them. I have my drives in a TerraMaster F6-424, but the built in OS was garbage, so I flashed the BIOS and installed TrueNAS, which