What does this pre-inspection tell us? Installation of another operating system onto the FS-422 should proceed without drama, so let’s get on with it.
A PCIE NIC board with an Aquantia will set you back $100, or more, if you can find one these days. They go into a backplane, into which up to five SATA harddrives slide by way of plastic caddie. The 10GBE Aquantia is the star of the system.Īs for SATA connections, the Celeron will provide two on chip, the other three come courtesy of an Asmedia ASM1062. Both should be readily recognized by any modern Linux distro. In addition to the aforementioned Ethernet port grafted onto USB, there is a regular Gigabit Realtek PCI Express port, and a very capable Aquantia AQC107 10GBE port. In total, the FS-422 supports three Ethernet adapters.
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Make sure that your network cable is plugged into the port that works, and install an RTL8153/52 driver later. Some Linux distros may have a hard time recognizing that hookup and will show only two Ethernet ports during install. The USB 3.0 bus also powers the second Gigabit Ethernet adapter of the F5-422, by way of a Realtek RTL8153/52 USB Gigabit Ethernet adapter. No expense has been spared to save money with this board.
USB 3.0, meaning a 10x speed increase over the inside port. Despite the Celeron being able to support USB 3.0 on all eight ports, the inside USB port is only of the 2.0 persuasion, signaled by its white color, and confirmed by lsusb. The Celeron J3455 supports 8 USB 3.0, but only three of them are brought out, two to the back panel I/O, one to an USB connector on the motherboard. The Celeron’s on-chip graphics are brought out to an HDMI port. The memory can be expanded to a total of 12GB using an 8 GB laptop-style SODIMM. The board sports a quad core Intel Celeron J3455, and it has 4 GB of memory soldered onto the board. (GIFA), a company usually making industrial controllers in Shenzhen in the South of China. Various system information utilities identify the board as being made by a Shenzhen Jifang Industrial Control Co., Ltd. All you need is a small Phillips-head screwdriver, and two USB sticks.ĬASING THE CASE: Inside the Terramaster F5-422 is a small motherboard of the type used in those MiniPCs we can pick up for around $200 at Amazon. If you have ever used an USB stick to install an operating system on a computer, then you have enough experience to replace Terramaster’s “TOS” with something less aggravating. The FS-422 may look like an imposing little machine, but under the silvery plastic it’s nothing more than a low-powered little PC. We will not cover the install of the O/S itself, the story already is way too long.ĭON’T BE AFRAID. This is F5-422 only, some of it may apply to other Terramaster models, but the F5-422 is all I have experience with. This is a generic how-to, covering the steps to replace the stock operating system of a 5-bay Terramaster F5-422 with something more to your linking.
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