Why do they say they’re prohibited to provide support? That a bad translation?
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2024
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Commodity hardware & open source software for the win.
When my Western Digital NAS was never going to get critical security patches, I was so freaking glad to find out that they just used software raid... I threw the HDDs in a Debian server and never looked back.
It's certainly nice to have things that are turn-key, but if you can find your way around any OS, just avoid proprietary everything.
A bunch of juvenile D-Linkuents. Get it? D-Link? Nevermind....
a new non dlink router. Since the should be named f-link for a number of reasons.
Is DDWRT still a thing?
OpenWRT is. Not sure if it's supported on that hardware tho.
Same website (granted, different author, but), same inflammatory language, same vendor, referencing previous erroneous article...I'm not even gonna read this one. Just going to copy/paste my previous response from the previous post:
At a certain point it's the consumer's (and blog writer's) fault, and that's after EoL. Not patching a supported one and just getting rid of support, saying buy a newer one? Yeah, that's bad.
Continuing to not support an EoL model that you already don't support due to EoL (or even dropping support for an EoL model that no one expected you to support in the first place due to EoL)? Non-issue.
Perfect time for users to buy something that isn't D-Link then innit.
Instead of trusting DLink with an off the shelf NAS, it might be easier to build your own with a Raspberry Pi running openmediavault hooked up to a couple of USB hard drives. It's worked well for me for over 6 years now with no issue and could cost way less.
I built my own with an old PC, and it's pretty easy. You can install TruNAS or OMV if you want, but I ended up just installing my distro of choice (OpenSUSE Leap in this case), set up BTRFS on my NAS drives in something similar to RAID 1, and set up a few services (Samba, Jellyfin, etc). TruNAS or OMV will make that initial setup a lot easier, so do that if you're not confident.
The Raspberry Pi is not nearly fast enough for what I want it for, and I had an old PC laying around, so I figured I might as well reuse what I have. I started w/ a Phenom II x4 from 15 years ago, and recently upgraded to my Ryzen 1700. I plan to upgrade my NAS hardware whenever I upgrade my gaming PC to keep things recent-ish. Total power draw is somewhere around 50W, so a fair bit more than a Raspberry Pi, but only like 2x more due to the drive overhead (I use NAS-grade HDDs).
“Easier“, no. Not for the average person on the street.
Don't get me wrong, I've built several NAS over the years (dropped OMV for just Arch and the packages I want) and loaded OpenWRT (etc) on routers
But, building my own NAS, servicing my own car, repairing my own house, felling my own trees, at some point I'll just lack knowledge and buy something simple / pay someone to do it... and that's where cheap consumer electronics fits (unfortunately)
Except a lot of it doesn't fit because tons of it is predatory trash sold as functional when one or two things can go wrong and ruin everything.
It's hard to expect the layman to need something technical, not know enough technically to do it themselves, but have enough surface knowledge to not get ripped off. It's like threading a needle of the perfect level of wisdom.
Like I'd wager the common every dude would look for a connected hard drive, maybe Western Digital because of the market saturation, but there's just so much garbage online that half works.
Then there's interconnectivity issues, software not being available cross-platform after already spending hundreds on hardware, Apple problems.
The average user is just set and ready to be ripped off at like, all angles.
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