Don't use the X725 for your Raspberry Pi

Leaving the previous post up as a warning for future me’s. Don’t follow it. Do not use the X725. As it turns out, it can (and will) at some point fry the SD card, leaving you with a bricked NAS. From the looks of it, chances of this are highest when it loses main power, which you’d think would be the main point of a battery-backed UPS system. It is not a question of whether this will happen, but when.

Custom RAID NAS with Raspberry Pi

Edit: WARNING Do not follow the advice in this post. Do not get the X725. Recently, my old NAS system died on me, and I was in the market for something else. The only thing I use it for is backups, so I don’t really need much in terms of fancy NAS features like seamless streaming and a web-interfaces. One thing that had been annoying me for several years (on several ready-made NAS boxes) though was the software in general: either it was propietary, or it was Linux-based but modified for the NAS hardware.