Question Basic drivers and firmware type support for Lenovo EOL NAS

[mikeford]

Hot deals section has great prices on Lenovo NAS units now that they are end of life, and EMC software they used was sold to Dell. They are all from the era of 2012 to 2014, cheapest are Lenovo (Iomega) consumer grade NAS units, most expensive are from the pro line with typical pro features of the time. 5 years ago Tiger sold off a bunch of the low end models and I bought one of the diskless IX2 models, dropped in a pair of WD red 3TB drives and its been 24/7 since. For $55 shipped I could not resist buying a 2x 1TB second IX2 model, and I am more likely than not going to buy one of the 4 bay pro models, PX4-400D, diskless for $150.

The catch is that my 5 year old IX2 has had zero issues, so I haven't looked for or applied any updates in years, and when I just now looked at Lenovo, registered the new one without much trouble, didn't like my purchase date, there are NO support files at all. Several other members of this site have bought these units, so I am hoping this thread can be a collecting point for support information and maybe exchanging any found files before they are gone from anyplace.

Hot deals thread, note buried in that thread is div of company selling direct with free shipping rather than ebay or newegg. https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...as-units-newegg-sold-by-centrix-intl.2577570/

 

[mikeford]

Link in device quick start goes to Lenovo EMC download page for the IX2, hopefully its the same for the other devices.

Most of my issues now, seem squarely MS WIN10 related. My old NAS (same IX2 as I just bought) that has shown its shared folders in the file browser window for the last 5 years, poofed, shortly after same folders copied to the new NAS showed up. I did a bunch of things, finally typed \\nameofnas in the file browser address line, and like magic the shared folders from that device appeared. Too many things got touched to guess what worked, but I blame MS in general.

 

[mikeford]

Saw this on another forum, putting it here for reference. I wonder if anybody will take advantage of the cheap hardware to figure out how to open source and update firmware?

ReX4-400D SLOW after latest firmware PLEASE FIX IT!
2020-06-28, 14:08 PM
Last Update for PX4-300d (4.1.414.34909 LifeLine Lenovo OS), Based on Debian Jessie, has this info root@STOR:/# cat /proc/version Linux version 3.8.6 (soho@bsoho095.iomegacorp.com) (gcc version 4.7.2 (crosstool-NG 1.20.0) ) #1 SMP Thu Jan 2 06:47:03 EST 2020 searching on kernel.org archives i found the release of the kernel 3.8.6 2013-04-05 09:49:15 -0700 ( https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tag/?h=v3.8.6 ) that means, the real update was never released and just they patched or semi patched the OS and never do an real update on the core OS. SHAME ON YOU LENOVO!!