![]() It boots from HDD, but there is an inspection made by some scripts from the NAND. Inside there is a whole Linux system, so I was able to inspect many files from /etc /var/log/, etc. Second thing was to remove the HDD, then put it in a USB3-HDD box. It usually a thing I do for any new unknown connected device. The first thing I have done was to open that device, and check the MAC address label, then set a rule in my router's firewall to prevent any access for this box to or from the outside world. I see it more like a black-box inside my LAN, a puppet from the vendor, with an old and proabably unsecure OS on it (Ubuntu 12.04 with 3.10 Linux kernel). It has a SSH root access only at the disposal of the vendor. My old synology DS214SE with older Armada CPU looks like runinng on an Intel Core i5 compared to this. Many many layers of software to achieve things (mongo blob storage, mysql, nginx-php but also django-python web server). If your internet connection falls, you cannot even access it from your own LAN! As it needs a central authentication. A big slap on HDD heads! For safetyness for my experimentations, I've removed the precious 4To HDD and copied its content to a 500Go 2.5" HDD, salvaged from an old set-top-box. The only shutdown option is to remove the power plug. There is no safe shutdown button, nor any command for it from the application. Imagine, I had to delete 230Go of files (from previous user) that way. Deleting just 1000 picture from the app takes so long. Files backuped from the application are stored as MongoDB blobs, so everything is so slow. ![]() There were no upgrade of the OS from vendor since then. When on market in 2016, the underlying OS was Ubuntu 12.04 (from 2012, already 4 years obsolete). ![]() ![]() Your must register an account on the vendor website in order to claim and use your device. But you cannot use it without a propietary application (Win, Mac, IOS, Android. A NAS-like box that you can access anywhere remotely, with a centralized connection. It has 2 USB3 ports, a Gigabit Ethernet port, 1 GB of RAM, 128 MB of Nand. It's based on Armada 385 and features a good Toshiba 4To surveillance serie HDD. I've found this device Promise Apollo Cloud on a flea market. ![]()
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