I have an old Synology 1819 NAS that was the unfortunate victim of the Intel Atom/Clock bug. I would like to repurpose the case as I like the compact form factor. Has anyone tried replacing a synology mobo with something else (ex: an ITX board or a Raspberry Pi), and using an alternative operating system?
I had no idea that existed, that’s a slick piece of HW. If I pull the case off I may be able to shoehorn it into the spot where the old mobo was. I could also just rip out the Synology backplane, add a sata expansion card, and make it a general purpose NAS, just with fewer disks.
My hope was to re-use the case to backup ~30TB of RAIDed storage. This is an excellent find, thank you!
Awesome. I haven’t had the chance to play with one yet, but I’ve been eying them and have heard nothing but good reports. Please do let us all know how it goes.
I defintely will!