Comment on Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab?

• gkaklas@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There was no way to use or even just mount and migrate my existing storage (btrfs+LVM). LVM wasn’t even installed, and when I tried to install it, I got an error saying that apt was disabled on the system, which means I was basically locked out of doing anything more than what they allow you to do on your own hardware.

  It seems like it’s technically open source, but having all the vendor-lock in features and lack of control of a proprietary solution

  The only use case seems for it to be used as a black box appliance:

  • on a new system
  • with empty hard drives
  • only with ZFS
  • without having any control on your own system, except enabling samba etc and maybe installing the predefined Docker containers that they allow you from the web interface

  I knew it is supposed to be only an appliance, but with how much people recommended it, I didn’t thing it would be this closed of a system; I think I’ve read about people doing more things with even just their Synology hardware

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• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Annoyingly, disk discovery. It refused to use my disks, claiming they didn’t have serial numbers. I could see the serial numbers in the fronted and the console, but their middleware just hated them.

  I am using a USB multi-disk drive thing, which didn’t work properly on an old kernel, but it should have been fine with the new kernel.

  I reported the bug, which didn’t really get addressed, and then had to build my array using the command line tools (which aren’t documented).

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