So not all ARM Nas's are stable for debian. What are some good choices? I am thinking about Seagate Personal Cloud (1 bay only), which is supported by debian. But do all stuff work? For example, poweroff, reboot, wake on lan, CPU energy saving modes? What would be a good choice?
My number one is: Iomega PX4-300D. Ethernets work, wake on lan works. Power draw is around 15W at idle. This is not ARM, it's actually intel atom x86. But very easy. 1GB NAND flash inside. Only, you could put an alpine linux inside, I am using it like that actually. I put it using virtualbox, installing an alpine linux as 955MB(exactly that), 100MB boot, rest is for rootfs. Then turn that vdi file to img, then boot another linux HDD inside that NAS(it actually has a very easy BIOS, and serial console) and select it, from there burn that img file.
I could actually share a guide about it.
I ported an Asustor AS-1002T before, but ethernet wasn't stable. It would work for 20 minutes, then go down. It would be because I couldn't find a good dtb file, I used a Linksys's WRT1200AC's DTB file. That was the only working file with ethernet. I followed this guide exactly: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Linksys/WRT1200AC
But, the original firmware was an img file. I extracted them, there were two dtb files AS10XT.dtb and AS10XTE.dtb files. I appended those dtb files with cat, but they booted debian installer, but no ethernet. I don't know why those dtb files didn't work... I extracted them via binwalk command. Can someone care to explain? The NAS uses some 3.10 kernel btw, originally. Maybe that's why?
My number one is: Iomega PX4-300D. Ethernets work, wake on lan works. Power draw is around 15W at idle. This is not ARM, it's actually intel atom x86. But very easy. 1GB NAND flash inside. Only, you could put an alpine linux inside, I am using it like that actually. I put it using virtualbox, installing an alpine linux as 955MB(exactly that), 100MB boot, rest is for rootfs. Then turn that vdi file to img, then boot another linux HDD inside that NAS(it actually has a very easy BIOS, and serial console) and select it, from there burn that img file.
I could actually share a guide about it.
I ported an Asustor AS-1002T before, but ethernet wasn't stable. It would work for 20 minutes, then go down. It would be because I couldn't find a good dtb file, I used a Linksys's WRT1200AC's DTB file. That was the only working file with ethernet. I followed this guide exactly: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Linksys/WRT1200AC
But, the original firmware was an img file. I extracted them, there were two dtb files AS10XT.dtb and AS10XTE.dtb files. I appended those dtb files with cat, but they booted debian installer, but no ethernet. I don't know why those dtb files didn't work... I extracted them via binwalk command. Can someone care to explain? The NAS uses some 3.10 kernel btw, originally. Maybe that's why?