For many years, I had a QNAP TS-853 Pro with 4x 2TB WD Red disks and 4x 3TB WD Read disks. The hardware was (is) very reliable and still running. In fact, I use this NAS now as my backup of the current build. However, the software (QTS) of QNAP is horrible for anything advanced. The kernel is outdated, the security weak, and putting proper security in place really cumbersome. For instance: only the admin user account could be used to ssh into the NAS. At the same time, QNAP recommended disabling the admin account for security reasons. Doing both at the same time wasn’t possible. For 5+ years??? 🤦‍♂.

Hardware

• Mainboard: ASUS Z10PA-D8 Series
• CPU: 8-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz
• CPU cooler 🧊: Arctiv Freezer i11 CO
• RAM 🐏: Kingston 32GB DDR4-ECC (4x 8GB), 1Rx4, 2400 MHz, PC4
• Storage:
  • Boot device: 128GB Transcend 430S M.2 2242 6Gb/s 3D NAND
  • SSD RaidZ0: 2x 1TB Crucial BX500 2.5” (6.4cm) SATA 3D-NAND QLC ➡ 1TB usable storage Edit: I added a third 1 TB SSD.
  • HDD RaidZ1: 4x 6TB WD Red WD60EFAX 256MB 3.5” (8.9cm) SATA 6Gb/ ➡ 15.72 TB usable storage
• Case: Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 Rev. B silenced

Images

Motherboard:

Storage array:

Software

• OS: TrueNas Scale TrueNAS-SCALE-22.02-RC.2

Periphery

• Bluewalker USV Powerwalker VI 650 SB LI (link) with a USB connector. See this blog post on how I set it up.