I have an old Synology 1819 NAS that was the unfortunate victim of the Intel Atom/Clock bug. I would like to repurpose the case as I like the compact form factor. Has anyone tried replacing a synology mobo with something else (ex: an ITX board or a Raspberry Pi), and using an alternative operating system?

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    1 year ago

    Don’t have much experience with synology, let lone replacing their boards, but I wonder if something like the Zimaboard (https://www.zimaboard.com) might do the trick. It’s x86-based and has a pcie slot.

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      1 year ago

      I had no idea that existed, that’s a slick piece of HW. If I pull the case off I may be able to shoehorn it into the spot where the old mobo was. I could also just rip out the Synology backplane, add a sata expansion card, and make it a general purpose NAS, just with fewer disks.

      My hope was to re-use the case to backup ~30TB of RAIDed storage. This is an excellent find, thank you!

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        1 year ago

        Awesome. I haven’t had the chance to play with one yet, but I’ve been eying them and have heard nothing but good reports. Please do let us all know how it goes.