Fujitsu abandoned their Celvin NAS customers. The proprietary software is over 10 years old. And worse, Fujitsu had an app store to get apps that were not part of the stock stock distro, like a bittorrent app, which are no longer reachable.
The hardware uses a Marvell arm SOC. FreeNAS is x86 only. QNAP has some fairly recent distros that may be compatible. It’s proprietary and perhaps somewhat risky. What are the chances that a QNAP image from 2024 bricks my Fujitsu from 2013?
Is QNAP my only option, or is there a FOSS option? There are at least 15 FOSS NAS platforms:
https://techcult.com/best-free-and-open-source-nas-software/
but I have no idea if any are built for a Marvell arm SOC. Anyone know?
@evenwicht
Sorry I’m not offering a more optimistic response.
Nothing is going to work out of the box. The very first pain point will be a working boot loader and device tree.
If you fight hard enough you might be able to get some sort of debian build running and can roll your own NAS from there.
https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_FAQ/#why-no-universal-image