Can I change the OS on a QNAP?
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Ganymedian_Craters · 2023-11-21 07:51

I’m quite new to this, so apologies if this is a stupid question.
I recently got a QNAP TS-459 Pro+ secondhand, and it’s no longer
supported softwarewise by QNAP. That makes it incompatible with a lot
of modern software.
Is there any way to either forcibly update the OS or change it out
entirely? I’d love to actually be able to control the machine I own

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nik_h_75 · 2023-11-21 08:03

Not that I know of.
NAS boxes are nice as AIO solutions and NAS boxes are annoying, as
they are proprietary AIO solutions.

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hannsr · 2023-11-21 08:25

A lot of older qnap boxes can be booted from USB to load another OS.
You can't really install it though, so it's a bit janky.

But running truenas for example should work, there are tutorials or
there in how to USB boot qnap.

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thekrautboy · 2023-11-21 08:46

/r/QNAP

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ovidiufg · 2023-11-21 09:18

Maybe Unraid.

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Ganymedian_Craters · 2023-11-21 09:36

Thank you, I’ll look into that!
I’ll happily take some jankiness just for the learning experience

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cemo1304 · 2023-11-21 11:22

I have a QNAP-TS453D and tried TrueNAS and Unraid on it from USB, both
work fine.

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Ganymedian_Craters · 2023-11-21 11:55

Oooh thank you! That seems to be the way forward

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pigers1986 · 2023-11-21 12:01

unplug it's internal DOM (disk on memory - look it up)

then boot installation from USB stick of desired OS - you might have
problem with fan control (old docus:
https://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-41x/tips/)

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CatoDomine · 2023-11-21 12:21

s/memory/module/

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substitute-bot · 2023-11-21 12:21

unplug it's internal DOM (disk on **module** - look it up)

then boot installation from USB stick of desired OS - you might have
problem with fan control (old docus:
https://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-41x/tips/)

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hannsr · 2023-11-21 12:22

Rather have some jank than throwing good hardware away. If one can
keep it alive with a bit of fiddling, then why not.

Also it should be no problem, because truenas for example doesn't
really write to it's boot drive. So even a regular USB drive should be
fine for quite some time. My truenas boxes run off of the cheapest
SSDs I could find. 128GB for just 7 bucks, new. And the oldest system
is now up for 2 years....

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pigers1986 · 2023-11-21 12:41

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#DOM

like this one