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A NAS tale

A NAS tale

In August 2009 I decided it was time to replace my old Pentium II serving 5 old SUN storage disks (the white boxes, enormously noisy, for those who remember) with a modern NAS system. I bought a QNAP TS-439 Pro. The integrated firmware (aka customized Linux) gave me the creeps from a software design point of view, but it did the job. Almost exactly a year later there was a fatal event and my software RAID (RAID 5) decided not to assemble anymore.