Unraid on a QNAP box that has no HDMI Port help!!!

[kurzonmorris]

i bought a TS-433 QNAP box and well apparently it doesnt come with an HDMI port. Does this mean i cant put unraid on it?

 

I managed to find one post about this and they said remove the DOM and well i have no idea what that is, though through inference it might be the internal HDD/OS drive. but that would mean voiding my warrantee and if i can help it i dont want to do that.

 

anyway i'd appreciate any help on this anyone can give

 

Kurzon

[MrSimplicity]

The only reason you would need and HDMI port is for setup. If you can setup Unraid on a flash drive prior then there's no need. However they would be right in saying to remove the internal drive as it would typically run it's own OS and wouldn't allow you to boot to the flash drive otherwise. I would say as well that in most cases products like this are really only used as JBODs attached to an already running server. Otherwise they are strictly meant to just be a one size fits all solution to a NAS either connected directly to your router or another system open to the network.

 

TLDR: no need for a HDMI just setup unraid first on a flash drive and figure out how to boot to USB on the box.

[Blue4130]

5 hours ago, kurzonmorris said:

i bought a TS-433 QNAP box and well apparently it doesnt come with an HDMI port. Does this mean i cant put unraid on it?

 

I managed to find one post about this and they said remove the DOM and well i have no idea what that is, though through inference it might be the internal HDD/OS drive. but that would mean voiding my warrantee and if i can help it i dont want to do that.

 

anyway i'd appreciate any help on this anyone can give

 

Kurzon

Why do you want unraid on it? Generally, you buy something like a TS-443 for its ease of deployment, not running a custom OS on it.