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>Lessons Learned

The whole ordeal was largely of my own making. I never anticipated that the simple act of copying files from one place to another could go so horribly wrong.

It isn't user's own making or user's fault at all! ( A voice is literally screaming this inside my head ) Tech shouldn't be like this. The DS218 support BTRFS which prevent certain file corruption but this is not what's happening either.

I have been saying ( or ranting ) about this for now more than a decade. [1] And every time the answer was there are no market for it. Or consumer or market are not willing to pay premium for high quality NAS. The Kobol NAS was my hope that a high quality, reasonably priced, and somewhat reasonably easy to setup and managed NAS would be. But they are closed down as well [2].

I really hope Kobol release all of the work as open source including hardware design. May be someone ( or me ) could crowdfund it once the chip shortage is over.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10886702

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299573