Spent the day today digging around in the deepest and darkest parts of my Thecus NAS, and I can now say absolutely and without a doubt not to waste your money on them.

The filesystem is horrendous, the scripts are hacked together, and it's overall just really quite disgusting for what is meant to be a SMB/Business grade device.

I also have some serious concerns about the validity of the encryption it makes use of ('backing up' the encryption keyfile and password, encrypted with a static key.. pssht, no thanks) Not to mention that the ''bin' config backup file is just a .tar.gz encrypted with, yet again, a static key.

And for funsies, there are a few things that i've seen along the way that I would think are exploitable, at least potentially so. Haven't really had the time/effort/inclination to delve into it further at this stage.

This is all on top of the fact that support has been HORRENDOUS (I basically have to open a new ticket each time I reply, just to get them to look at my original ticket/attempt to do something)

In positive news.. has been interesting to say the least, and I'm pretty sure I have all the components i'll require to string my RAID back together into some form of working state. Just a matter of figuring out just how to fit them together..

I might follow this post up in the future with some interesting findings, recovery steps, exploits or otherwise. Till then!