I'm using one of these NAS units for home use. I've had it about 24 months. It's been solid for uptime and performance.
HOWEVER
I'm about to give up and replace it. In addition to NAS storage, I'm using it for Plex, Unifi Controller, and half a dozen other things. The underlying Readynas Linux distro is Debian Jessie (8.x). Long term support for Jessie expired in June of 2020. Jessie is now classified as "oldoldstable" and is about to be bumped to "obsolete" status. As a result, *everything* I do is painful. From transcoding commands to containers to cloud replication CLI.
SO
Has anyone seen any indication that Netgear is going to continue the Readynas lineup? ALSO Has anyone just gone ahead and run a distro upgrade? I'm considering using this as a regular server, since the hardware is fine. I'd likely lose the Netgear GUI, etc., but at least it would still have a life as a Debian box in my IT rack.
