WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities

Re:WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities by jchw on Saturday January 06, 2018 @08:51AM (#16085224)

I'm aware of FreeNAS. I used to run a custom NAS setup. What I've learned is that its not worth my time to be making NAS setups. It can be a surprising ordeal from both a hardware and software PoV. If I were to build my own NAS, the first item on my wish list would be open source hardware with no firmware blobs and no hidden processors that I didn't ask for. Where do you go to get that? AMD has PSP, Intel has ME, ARM has TrustZone (yes I'm aware these are not identical,) and all of them feel untrustworthy to me now.

If RISC-V is fast enough to power a NAS and open source SATA controllers exist, I would absolutely prefer a setup involving that.

If I'm not going to get that... I'd probably prefer a setup from Synology. They'll do a good enough job, probably better than I could, even if the price is a premium.

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Re:WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities by nickik on Saturday January 06, 2018 @08:59AM (#16085255)

You don't have to do it yourself. Why not just buy one of these:

https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/

I have won and its pretty awesome, running for years, have replaced the disks multible times by now.

Its very upgradable as well, you can put in more ram, caches and so on.

Open Hardware is pretty much a no-go at the moment, but iXSystems does support a lot of Open Source.

I would recommend this setup above any of these Synology things, when I compare my problems with my friends who have Synology, I usually come out pretty happy with my choices.

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