QNAP TS-x53D
The QNAP TS-x53D is a series of two- and four-bay NAS appliances.
Hardware
- Realtek 8125 2.5Gbit Ethernet requires Linux 5.9-rc1 or above.
- QM2 expansion cards can add additional NVMe storage.
Access UEFI interface
Tap Esc
repeatedly during early boot with a display connected to the HDMI port, and it'll drop you into the interface once it's completed POST.
Installing Debian
You'll need a USB thumb drive to use as the boot and OS media, and another temporarily to write the installer to. It'll be slower to boot than using the onboard DOM, but you'll get to use all of the drive bays.
Install Debian stable from the netinst
image, skipping configuration of the network interface. The debian-installer
kernel is too old to include the driver, so custom firmware won't work.
Pre-Bullseye
Post-installation, install firmware-realtek
and linux-image-5.10.0-0
from backports to get the network working. You'll need to download the *.deb
packages on the first boot to enable networking. To ensure the packages are kept up to date afterwards:
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports non-free
EOF
apt update
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