[bonkabonka]

Somewhat related is the GnuBee: http://gnubee.org/

MediaTek MIPS CPU and only 512mb RAM though. The community is kinda moribund and the installation instructions don't match the firmware I got on the device. I've made a couple of halfhearted attempts to update to later versions but haven't had any success so far.

[BlackLotus89]

If you want to setup the gnubee be sure to have a good enough power supply and use https://github.com/neilbrown/gnubee-tools instead of the official firmware. I would cross compile it since the compilation on the gnubee didn't provide me with a working image, but Neil browns effort getting a nearly mainline kernel to work are fabulous.

There are a few pitfalls so make sure to check your devices Mac address before and after the install. Also do a rudimentary performance check on the HDDs with hdparm. I was disappointed at the gnubee as well because of the (IMHO) stupid design decisions with the bootloader and the bugs it entails when running a newer system from an SD card. (You have to name your partition a certain way and it changes to that partition halfway through the boot. Also they never really tried (afaict) to mainline uboot and the version they used is ... not nice.

I really wanted to like and to use it, but for me it was a bit unstable with a full bay and since I didn't want to buy a bunch of new 2.5" discs for a unstable system and my 2.5" discs I tested with were all just 250gbit doesn't really work for me

[bonkabonka]

nod

I also discovered that the 2.5" drives I bought to use with mine (Seagate ST3000LM024) are DM-SMR and thus fall out of even mirrored arrays within 24 hours of booting. :(

Also because low RAM and MIPS, running Go-based software like Minio or Restic seems unlikely (or at least unstable).

One of these days someone will do a proper homebrew NAS board. Surely.