Patreon Vid: Busted up Buffalo TeraStation
Added 2025-01-12 00:36:07 +0000 UTCOrdered a pristine (but probably inoperable) Buffalo TeraStation NAS on eBay and, well... you'll see what happened to it.
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I got a newer Buffalo NAS (~2015) for free a while back. The software on it was of course utterly outdated and annoying to deal with. Found a project on github that let me install Debian 12 on it, used mdadm to set up RAID and now it's a decent little backup NAS. Slow and underpowered of course, but fine for what it is.
Martin Paulsen
2025-01-12 07:37:27 +0000 UTCthat's a good call... I'll experiment some more
clabretro
2025-01-12 05:29:31 +0000 UTCI might end up 3d printing any pieces that are missing or too shattered
clabretro
2025-01-12 05:29:12 +0000 UTCahh that's such a bummer
clabretro
2025-01-12 05:28:34 +0000 UTCI wonder if the "connection" problem is related to a TLS certificate, possibly expired. Can you bring up the IP in a web browser? What does Wireshark show when accessing it?
DrScriptt
2025-01-12 04:40:26 +0000 UTCIs it possible to 3d print a replacement cover?
Matthew Gregory
2025-01-12 04:07:56 +0000 UTCI feel your pain. I picked up a beautiful Pentium Pro system from Digital Equipment Corp on eBay that arrived this week only for me to discover it's DOA. eBay is always a gamble. We mostly win, I guess. (That's why we keep going back.) But when we lose it sure stings.
Wossen Wyatt
2025-01-12 02:07:33 +0000 UTCOh man, the newer version of these I have for our files at work is significantly less fun looking. Zero screws to get the drives out of mine though, so I guess what they didn't spend improving their website went to chassis improvements. Overall the pair I have have been chugging along happily for almost 6 years now with pretty much no effort on my end. Pretty solid product.
Justin Danielson
2025-01-12 01:10:11 +0000 UTCI'm in the zone lol
clabretro
2025-01-12 00:43:06 +0000 UTCI was thinking the same thing!
ConnerWithAnE
2025-01-12 00:42:50 +0000 UTCTwo in one day? Spoiling us
con
2025-01-12 00:39:54 +0000 UTC
