I only see wasted storage space. Is it for sale? 
It’s art. Of course it’s for sale… 
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Modern art i just meh!
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This is exactly what I’ve done now. The raspberry pis could not handle the recent test data and my nodes were crashing several times daily. Now I have them connected to a SAS controller from eBay on a >10 yr old 8GB RAM, AMD Phenom II X4 system I had around.
At this moment I’m receiving [test data] at 240mbit/s, sitting at a load average ~40 and my nodes are stable.
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1622 days I think that’s a good score 
So I had an old ReadyNAS Pro 6 which I bought over 10 years ago.
Netgear discontinued the whole product line and I was about to take it to the recycling centre but when I opened it to see what was inside I saw a VGA header on the motherboard.
So I got a cable and sure enough was able to get into the BIOS.
Turns out it’s just a PC using the now-obsolete ReadyNAS OS.
So I installed Debian into a HDD and put Grub on the built-in USB boot-drive.
I’m going to upgrade the CPU to a Core 2 Duo E7600 and add a couple more sticks of RAM (it only takes 8 GB maximum), put a small SSD as boot drive and should be able to run one or two nodes.
It’s only SATA-II but should still be more reliable than USB3 for the HDD connection.
I only wish I knew how to change the Display from “ReadyNAS” to either “Storj” or some sort of more useful information (like throughput, load average, IOWait, or something like that)
I love repurposing old tech which otherwise would just be in the scrapyard 
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That display must be controlled by something. Dosen’t have anything in the BIOS?
Nothing obvious or that I can make any sense out of…
What does the rear side show as the model number ? “Pro” version have ReadyNas PRO written on the front.
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Well, this is interesting.
Turns out it says RNDP6000 on the label but also RD-6B which apparently is a ReadyNAS Ultra6 and not Pro 6.
And all these years I thought I had a Pro! 
Lovely bits of kit, the chassis is so solid and well assembled! Such a shame they were canned…
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Just a quick search, don’t know if it helps…
https://embedded-lab.com/blog/lab-15-scrolling-text-message-on-an-led-dot-matrix-display/
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That’s way beyond my level of ability, unfortunately 
30TB CMR!!! We’re going to need a new log entry…
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess terminated: filewalker gave up and went home {“Process”: “storagenode”, “satelliteID”: “12L9ZFwhzVpuEKMUNUqkaTLGzwY9G24tbiigLiXpmZWKwmcNDDs”}
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Pre-requisite states to use max 24TB drive. Also higher drives can’t keep using 4KB clusters. I am actually looking forward to their performance on Storj.
The 32TB is SMR, can’t wait to see the first SNO asking for help…
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That would be dependent on OS i guess, windows is 8k clusters since bigger than 16TB.
AFAIK
My 20TB 8k cluster runs verry well. it jumped from 5 to 8TB used, in this month.
Not on lousy file systems.
…$ truncate -s $((1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)) testfs
…$ ls -lh testfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 … 1.0P Jun 10 23:43 testfs
…$ time /sbin/mkfs.ext4 testfs
mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Discarding device blocks: 0/27487790694done
Creating filesystem with 274877906944 4k blocks and 4160749568 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 696b877e-0130-4ca7-a4fb-36a19e13745a
Superblock backups stored on blocks: …
…$ stat testfs
File: testfs
Size: 1125899906842624 Blocks: 9437720 IO Block: 4096 regular file
…
…$ /sbin/dumpe2fs -h testfs | grep Block.size
dumpe2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Block size: 4096
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I believe you can go way up with ext4 and x64bit OS, using 4K format.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ext4/overview.html#blocks
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For anyone considering a pi 5 node:
Hope its OK to post the vid instead of an image.
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