[kwlug-disc] old NAS, free to good home

[crankyoldbugger]

I want to say no on that.  Your USB connection still goes through the motherboard to get to the drives.  But I've never tried that, so I could be wrong.   Conversely, you could rip out the firmware and use it as a drive rack, I imagine. What I did to set it up as a NAS was I connected a drive to my desktop,  then loaded Ubuntu Server, then configured the IP,  etc., from there.  Then pop that drive into the NAS and adding three more drives via LVM.  It worked fine for a few days then somehow stopped talking to me.  Really haven't had time to do a deep investigation as to what happened. I can't believe that this tablet still works...
-------- Original message --------From: William Park via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> Date: 2024-01-08  11:58 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org Cc: William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] old NAS, free to good home Can you insert 4 harddisks and use them as external USB harddisks?On 2024-01-08 18:36, CrankyOldBugger wrote:> I have a very old Aspire easyStore H340 NAS, which originally came with > Windows Home Server preloaded, to give you an idea of how old it is.> see: > https://www.acer.com/ca-en/support/product-support/easyStore_H340/downloads <https://www.acer.com/ca-en/support/product-support/easyStore_H340/downloads>> > I recently tried to set it up with Ubuntu server to see if I could > resurrect it but ran into some issues.  This is a headless box, so no > video output, so caveat emptor.> > Free to good home, or at least to someone who likes a real challenge.> > If nobody calls dibs then I'm just going to chuck it into recycling.> > > _______________________________________________> kwlug-disc mailing list> To unsubscribe, send an email to kwlug-disc-leave at kwlug.org> with the subject "unsubscribe", or email> kwlug-disc-owner at kwlug.org to contact a human being._______________________________________________kwlug-disc mailing listTo unsubscribe, send an email to kwlug-disc-leave at kwlug.orgwith the subject "unsubscribe", or emailkwlug-disc-owner at kwlug.org to contact a human being.
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