Last night my previously reliable Iomega 1tb Cloud Edition NAS e-mailed me to say a firmware update was available to sort out the Shellshock vulnerability. I duly downloaded the update from the Lenovo website (who now own Iomega), ran the update function via the NAS management page in accordance with their instructions and the bloody thing bricked itself mid update. Luckily I had a USB HD plugged in with an auto back-up off the NAS so I shouldn't have lost any information but it's a tad annoying. I suppose it's one way of avoiding it being vulnerable to a Bash exploit (remove it totally from existance!).

I'll muck around with the old one to see if I can get it working but by all accounts it's a bit of a PITA to re-flash it, it's not official (Lenovo don't supply stock images or the software to flash them) and it's a destructive process so I'd then have to copy all the information back over from the USB HD even if it worked etc etc. In the meantime I've ordered a somewhat nicer RAID compatible LAN with a couple of speedy 2Tb HDs... Avoid having seperate usb HDs etc etc.

Bloody annoying though. Wasn't cheap when I bought it (it was a good few years back when it was one of the earlier NASs to come out) and to get bricked by a firmware update due to no fault of my own is a wee bit peeving considering I've had to shell out £160+ for the new gear.

And breath....................

i have got an asustor one made by asus. works very well and the software updates are reliable so far. it has a nice feature too. it has a hdmi plug on it and acts as an xbmc media center for my tv too. its also my web server and i can access my files remotely either by https or ftp.

Flashed the same firmware this morning, no problems.

Even though I did it remotely from work via TeamViewer to a home pc.

Looks like I got off lightly.