TerraMaster TD2 Giveaway - what would you do?

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I’d probably use it to get more into experimenting with SDR stuff. Pair that with an inverter, load up in my car with my macbook, save bulk I/Q samples for later sifting/processing. It’s not the kind of thing where I’m really limited as it is by not having high-capacity storage I can throw in a bag, but sometimes a new shiny can be the kind of thing that gives you a push.

(What I am limited by is not being able to receive shit in my workspace at home–I live in a basement suite which sucks for reception. The HV power lines right behind my house kinda let out playing with any kind of HF reception too. Not that I can work that spectrum right now anyway, I’d need to get an upconverter for my existing SDR.)

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Not a nas – direct attached but does raid, which is cool!

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What is the LAN port for then? :thinking:

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For allowing the internet to encrypt your data for you.

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Travel Backup Enclosure, Throw a pair of 16TB drives in there and you have a portable backup device that you can take offsite.

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I’m actually in progress of sourcing a portable ITX build with the X570 Asrock ITX TB3 mobo.

The computer has to travel with me on planes so it will be extra extra small. I won’t be able to use my 2x5TB Drives or any reasonable storage so I was going to use a TB3 dock/storage solution. This thing even comes with a handle. Amazing!
Is it noisy?

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Backup my desktop

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This, %100

Not sure if I would go all the way to 16tb, but either way, it would be nice to have two drives in a single portable package.

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storage for a raspberry pi

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It might be fun to spin up a VM and point it at this for seeding completely legal <cough, cough> Linux ISOs…yes, Linux ISOs.

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The specs claims that it is 18dBA. Of course, if it ends up being too loud, you can always “Noctua-ize” it. lol

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I would give this to my kid so they can save their media on it and play with VMs. i have no need for this.

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I’m currently working on getting my skills up to get an IT job. Repurposing my old gaming PC for a Proxmox server and get going with containers and stuff. This would be great for experimenting!

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I work for a not for profit , what i would use this for would be to back up media content , that is posted on our web site , and also bought music , video’s visual backgrounds and all other important media, if there was room left over , extra copies of OS and other documnets , thanks for Your consideration , our not for profit camp has been hard hit , and this would help alot .

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I would love this for a project, building a home music server. I already have the software to use, I don’t have a dedicated box I can try this on. Thanks :smiley:

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Back up all my uni files, since next year I’m going to be doing my automotive design course and am going to have a tonne of huge files.

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To be completely honest, I wouldn’t use it. I would populate it with some 8 TB drives in RAID 1 to replace my mother’s 1TB external backup drive.

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raid 0 ssd or hdd for minecraft server.

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I wanna use it as a on the go storage for my mac m1 making videos and content about my garden and smithing instruction videos from my fiancé

Having a small tb3 external would help alot getting this going and not attempting to use any of my retro gear which are on the their last legs as is for this would keep them running longer as their age is starting to show in cap rot and speed limitations

Keeping to tb3/type c would help modernize my storage as i currently am working with a xserve raid hooked to my mac pro 2009 as my current raid system leading to alot of slow downs and head aches

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I would Try it out as a Media server.