[Discuss] Mothballing Synology NAS

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

Actually, QNAP is probably one of the worst storage system vendors. They
offer little or no support. They sat on a silent corruption bug until they
were out-ed by a blogger who went public after the company's refusal to
acknowledge the bug:

http://www.sbsfaq.com/?p=4277

I have personally had to deal with qnap as a back-end to a ZFS storage
appliance and the customer kept getting corruption errors. (He actually
did have a disk failure/replacement in his raid.) We showed him the bug
report. That system is now "retired."

Worse yet, they don't publish the systems affected by the bug, oh no! They
only published the systems NOT affected by the bug leaving you to wonder
whether or not you are affected. "Is that my system? Its close, but not
exact."

Those small closed systems aren't worth it. A moderate ECC RAM motherboard
barebones system and good SATA disks will come in at about the same price,
be faster, and be more reliable.

Or pony up for a real storage system with support and service level
agreements.

> At least QNAP offer to one-click secure your installation with a Let's
> Encrypt cert through their SSL management plugin - even though they sell
> certs through the the same plugin/admin interface.
>
> (ed. note: TLS/SSL does not prevent Spectre / Meltdown - it's just an
> indication that QNAP are not 'crap' vendors if you consider Let's Encrypt
> free certs the 'right thing' to do.)
>
> Greg Rundlett
> https://eQuality-Tech.com
> https://freephile.org
>
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
> greg at freephile.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a QNAP TS-231 (dual bay SMB NAS) https://static.
>> myqnapcloud.com/device_model/53466f86d6b82f5cd5295b28?r=1517796001
>>
>> QNAP offered this security advisory on Jan. 8th
>> https://www.qnap.com/en-us/security-advisory/nas-201801-08
>>
>> And have released firmware upgrades since then ( 2018/01/30 ) ???QTS
>> 4.3.3.0448 Build 20180126
>>
>> However, they don't mention anything in the release notes yet
>> https://www.qnap.com/en/releasenotes/ so I'm unsure if it's "in there".
>>
>> They advise:
>>
>>    - Do not install applications from unknown third-party sources.
>>    - Do not open or run unknown virtual machine (VM) images on your
>>    device.
>>    - Do not run unknown software in Container Station.
>>
>>
>>
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