Hi everyone,
just discovered Rockstor, and I have seen that a couple of users have modified their old QNAP NAS in order to run Rockstor, in particular this thread is very interesting:
I have a very old yet perfectly operational QNAP TS-459+ with the stock 1G RAM and 512MB DOM, which I assume is similar to what is shown in the thread above.
I would need to at least upgrade the RAM to 2G, which is the maximum supported by the Atom K510 CPU, and of course figure out a way to reliably boot Rockstor from a USB drive, which is not really a suggested configuration, as I read from the documentation.
Is the effort worth it, I wonder?
I don’t mind tinkering with hardware and spending a little money to upgrade the RAM and boot device, but only if I would get reasonable performance and feature support from some hardware which is almost 14 years old!
Thanks for any comment you might have.
Bye, Luca
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