Sigh. UGREEN wants me to install their OS on my NAS as a troubleshooting step, which is a pain since it will mean wiping my boot drive and possibly the storage volumes as well.

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cyplo@peninsula.industries — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:12:56 GMT

@fedward sand should not be allowed to think

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fedward@distraction.party — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:05:34 GMT

Before it locked up I was forming a theory that since most/all of the crashes have been happening when the box is more or less idle, it might be related to low power CPU states and something going wrong either entering or exiting that. But freezing up while doing a drive operation makes me suspect the drive.

Anyway, computers remain, as ever, a mistake.

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fedward@distraction.party — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:02:22 GMT

Installed the UGREEN OS on my NAS and ran an overnight stress test without errors. The installer is keyed to the serial number of the box and can only be activated once, so I thought I’d make an image of the boot drive with it installed. That way if I do any more testing with TrueNAS I could just restore the image instead of having to get another keyed ISO sent to me.

It locked up during the imaging. Before it locked up it kept randomly slowing down and speeding up again, then it slowed down one last time and froze.

So I asked if they could just replace the SSD without replacing the whole box, and I bought a new SSD that I’m planning to use for any non-UGREEN OS installations. I would have preferred not to have that expense, but it’s going to make admin of the box much easier.