I've just got a Thecus N12000pro and was going to have it run as a media server for my video library but alas, it has been abandonned by Thecus and has no apps available for it so it is just a bog standard NAS. Thecus have said they are not interested in providing any archive MOD files.

 

Has anyone tried to Unraid this machine?  It would be great to have Unraid on it as it has 12 drive bays so the storage capacity can be huge. 

I do have another MB I could swap in just in case the existing is too restricted to Thecus and I can then use the case/ backplane/ SAS etc

Any advice appreciated

From the specifications, and that it supports different things that it comes with, and the pictures, it probably is a standard server-type, the firmware is encrypted or compressed, so I didn't get a lot out of that, but from the size it has a USB module or other type of flash inside like a DOM that it boots from like unraid. It could be they locked things down with the BIOS. I'd open it up, find out how it boots and see if you can do something with that.