Still looking for a usable NAS for Ubuntu 23.04

[Jay Ridgley]

On 8/6/23 07:48, Chris Green wrote:
>> On Fri, 2023-08-04 at 17:17 -0500, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>>> Since I have been trying to find a NAS unit that will work "out of the
>>> box" or with minor tuning with Ubuntu 2.04. It appears that a
>>> replacement MyBook MIGHT work but I am not clear if that is true.
>>>
>>
>> It largely depends on what you expect out of a NAS box.
> 
> Exactly!  Jay, tell us what backup software you want to run on Ubuntu
> that you want the NAS to work with.  Without knowing that it's well
> nigh impossible to answer your question.
> 
All,

  THANKS

  Pretty sure that I am going to go with a Synology DS220j with 2 2TB 
Seagate Barracuda drives installed. That would provide 4TB storage which 
is more than adequate for my needs.

  The software I want to use is Backups (Déjà Dup Backups, currently 
42.9); I have used it in the past and like it. Besides it comes as the 
default installed package.

A question I have is what is the maximum size of the partition that may 
be allocated in a single partition under Linux? Can it span multiple 
physical drives; as in ONE partition that is ~4TB in size? I am going to 
try to find that answer myself as well...

Thanks for the help and I will let you know how it goes, from here.

Still pending...

Regards,
Jay
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