Looking to improve existing NAS
reddit / selfhosted

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elingeniero · 2023-10-11 08:05

I recently went all in on the home server / self hosted idea and
swapped out my tp link router for a tiny pc running proxmox with all
sorts of services installed. I also looked into upgrading my NAS but I
don't have the space for a full PC build (and honestly don't need it
enough to justify the cost).

So I was wondering if there was a way of abstracting my existing NAS
to make it more modern. The NAS is a Buffalo Link station 220D with 2x
4TB Seagate Ironwolf drives in a RAID1 configuration. To be fair, it
has just sat quietly doing it's thing very reliably, but I have 3
issues with it:

1. The management interface is old, slow and quite sad looking. I
would like a nicer looking dashboard with more intuitive ways of
managing users etc.

2. It does have disk monitoring, but no alerting - the only way I
might notice if something has gone wrong is if I carefully read the
disk health section the 3 times/year I actually log in to the device.
I would like a system to monitor the drives and flash up an alert on
the homepage (using gethomepage.dev) if anything goes wrong.

3. It shares via SMB2 which is a pain because everything assumes SMB3
and every time I want to add a device I have to Google how to specify
the SMB version. I have mounted the drive within proxmox and I would
like a service that can re-share the drive using a better protocol.

I've looked into custom firmware for the NAS but I couldn't find any
and besides I don't want to risk the data that's already on there. I'm
not really sure what I'm searching for so I was hoping you might be
able to come up with ideas for a good solution?

TIA

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GolemancerVekk · 2023-10-11 20:37

Would it be safe to assume the RAID1 is also proprietary? If yes I'm
not sure what can be done with it if the RAID is proprietary and the
firmware is proprietary. You can move on to a PC with regular
components where you can install what you want and do what you want,
or to another proprietary system but with the options you want. In
both cases you'd need a place to hold the data while you move it over,
so probably new HDDs.