Hi Rogério, On 12/13/17 02:35, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear people, > > I would like to find a substitute to my KuroBox Pro, which is an armel-based > NAS. Here is its summary: > > * An Orion processor running at 400MHz > * 128MB of RAM > * a slot for one 3.5" SATA HDD > * gigabit ethernet > * 2 USB 2.0 ports > > That's essentially it. It works running Linux without *any* binary blob and > it is supported by the upstream Linux kernel. > > Unfortunately, Debian is starting to show that it is old. In particular, > there is constant swapping when serving my video collection via DLNA > (minidlna) and the kernel has even found some problems allocating memory for > the network device. :-( Besides DLNA, I intend to use it as an NFS and Samba > server. If I can run a printer spooler, then that will be nice, but it's not > required. > > I still intend to keep running it while I don't find a replacement for it, > but I would love to find something that is robust, that can run Debian and > that has low power consumption. > > I don't care so much if I have to use some binary blobs, as long as the blob > is purely firmware (e.g., if the NAS needed something from the firmware-* > packages, I'd be OK with that), it is fully supported by Debian, and I can > recompile things if something in Debian stops working. > > Is there anything similar to what I described above and that is a bit more > powerful? I don't particularly care what architecture it runs.
My home server/NAS is a QNAP TS-221, which has: - 1 core Kirkwood @ 2Ghz (armel) - 1GB RAM - 2* 3.5" hotplug bay - 2* eSATA - 1* 1Gbps ethernet - 1* USB 2.0 front - 2* USB 3.0 back all details: https://www.qnap.com/en/product/ts-221/specs/hardware Is supported by Debian without additional repo's but does require some blobs from firmware-* Martin Michlmayr has details on how to install debian on this machine at http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219/ I had some stability issues running more recent kernels, see list archives. GRTNX, RobJE
