Did it just die from old age or do you know what caused it to die?
Thanks,
Fat
The truth is, it was simply my "mechanical" fault (i think).
After years of use i completely disassembled and cleaned it. I also renewed the thermal paste.
I slipped with the fine slotted nylon tool once over the backside of the logic board while unmounting the small and flimsy CPU heatsink.
This slight issue probably also knocked off a resistor or similar i can't find anymore.
This is just a guess because i investigated the whole logic board and think there was something SMD soldered.
Anyway if or if not, this was obviously enough to kill the logic board.
I found a point to brick it with a fine tool to get a beep and the POST (sometimes) showed, but nothing stable you can rely on.
This can't be soldered by myself, i tried different things but without any luck.
First time in life something like that happened to me.
But i have repaired trillions of aBBLe™ devices down to layer surface back in the days as a certified technican.
I was reading a lot of threads where people, owning those embedded NAS devices like Qnap, Synology, Netgear aso. moaned
that after opening, done this done that, cleaning ..... closing, somehow the backplane died, the whole system was kindalike busted aso.
I can tell you for sure that i never have seen so many internal checkmarks on screws (nearly every screw), mechanical plates, lube fixed boards
like in system like this to ensure nobody unfasten any factory handling.
Despite the fact that at least this system has a really strong metal body, i feel the pcbs are coming from manufacturers like that are like, assemble it, and never ever touch it again. This underlines the spare part aftermarket, and the pricing of internal spare parts when you ask resellers or the manufacturer directly which forces you to buy another already overprized system instead to repair it if you go with this embedded hardware slavery.
I mean, this is nothing compared to general logic boards or similar parts used in other systems.
This is just my thinking, but somehow this is underlined when you read threads from the last years.
~ 5 years ago i was also being pleased by this Qnap marketing hype and not so Freenas enlighted at this days.
I was feeling i was in need of a data grave and the first thing somebody without any clue does is to trust into a system like that.
If you just take a look on the kindalike hard wired system software, the feature set, the primary target group the manufacturer focuses on
(Hipsters® with mobile phones copy over a cloud their selfpromoter pictures to this enternal data grave WTF?), you can understand their main business.
This was a learning curve i already finished almost 2 years after owning this unit and this was also the time when starting with Freenas back in that days.
Every day i'm impressed to see what you can achive with so called "outdated", but potent hardware in conjunction with TrueNAS * software.
That's what I call sustainable and I like it!
Anyway never ever again ;)