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yes and off-the-shelf unit is great for the family who aren’t that tech literate - it can just sit on the shelf and do it’s thing but you will still need to monitor and update it.
That CPU in the custom nas could also be more powerful than what you get in the off-the-shelf providing you with more flexibility.
It could start off as a nas today and tomorrow you to turn it into a virtualised server with the NAS software running as virtual machine.
Or you could find that you’re shifting very large files around and need 10GBe ethernet and high performace which could start to choke a Synology or QNAP NAS with an ARM processor.
Bit baffled by u/ajnozari comment on share security issues - SMB via SAMBA is well documented as to how to set things up…
Not sure they’re referring to a security issue as much as sometimes SAMBA can be a bit cantankerous with with permissions and security in order to access ahare or that some users have problems with configuring it.
it’s unlikely you’ll find something to fit that rack.
They’re designed for networking equipment - not PC hardware and outside of some 1RU units, there’s very little that’s going to find into 17".
Some-one posted looking for a 16" deep case yesterday (factoring in power cables etc that’s about as deep as the case could be). There might have been suitable response in there.
/r/PleX
I’ve seen the same sort of behaviour with netboot (though it’s more iPXE) though in my case it was an E1000 under Proxmox (and with other virtual cards).
It seems a common problem with iPXE where it hangs at initialising devices but there doesn’t see to be much in the way of solutions.
umm read the forum?
try google? (which reddit isn’t).
start by reading the forum.
I5.
Gives you a few more cores to play with down the track if you need them plus better performance from the get go.
Is the QNAP disk shelf known to work with non-QNAP hardware?
It might use a standard cable and have a HBA but doesn’t mean they hadn’t taken steps to make it proprietary.
before you convert, install the virtio drivers and in the VM configuration make sure the disk image file is attached as SATA0.
The virtioSCSI is a better drive but Windows doesn’t know the device at the first boot after the migration. It needs to boot, find the device and configure the drivers.
and need to ensure the image contains all the partitions from the original drive.