A spare machine in, a managed NAS out.
EasyNAS is an appliance, not an application: one image installs a complete operating system with the management stack on top. Write it to a disk, boot it, and build Btrfs pools, volumes, snapshots and network shares from your browser — no Linux administration required.
Btrfs, without learning Btrfs.
Disks become pools, pools carry volumes, volumes are what you share and snapshot. Every step is a form in the web UI, and the layout survives an OS reinstall because it lives on the data disks, not the system disk.
Every drive, with its health
Model, capacity and state for each drive — system, used, free or failed. SMART self-test results and Btrfs error counters surface on the dashboard, so a dying disk is visible before it takes data with it.
RAID across the disks you pick
Create a pool over one or more free disks with a RAID profile and transparent compression. Grow it later by adding devices, mount it read-only, or watch it warn you when an array is running degraded.
The unit you share and snapshot
Volumes are Btrfs subvolumes on a pool, mounted at /mnt/<pool>/<volume>. Set the owning user or group, take a snapshot before a risky change, and hand the path to a sharing protocol.
One appliance, two ways in
The image carries its own operating system, the management web application, and a console menu on the attached display. Settings live on a partition of their own, separate from the OS, and your data lives on the disks you gave to the pools.
One image per platform, then a browser.
Every image contains the same system — only the boot mechanics differ. The installation guide covers each path, and supported hardware answers whether your board will work.