Steve Fosdick wrote:
In choosing my NAS I wanted something which:
1. Has low power consumption. 2. Supports the applications I want to run on it. 3. Is open enough to support further applications as time goes by. 4. Is neat and tidy.
I ended up with a QNAP TS-419P which is the four bay unit based on the Marvell Kirkwood (an ARM SOC).
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Good choice - I run a QNAP TS-109 (Orion) at home, and my work recently purchased a QNAP TS-119 (Kirkwood).
Both now run Debian, but the supplied OS was surprisingly good, and I ran my TS-109 that way for about a year before recently rebuilding it (on a new SATA drive).
The Debian install is very well documented here:
http://www.cyrius.com/debian/orion/qnap/ts-109/install.html
http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-119/unpack.html
Hope this helps!
Simon