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Hey Robbie, Eddie

Have an unusual question and one you may want to explore for future video.

Let's say someone has a NAS, I have several, both QNAP and Synology, but let's use example of QNAP TS-853U (Large space for motherboard and PSU). There is a USB OS drive plugged in and hot glued in place. Let's say for some reason in the future the motherboard dies, am I able to replace the mobo with the likes of ones from Ali express N5105, and use the original USB OS stick in them?

Cheers
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If the motherboard dies, you will find it cheaper to purchase a replacement NAS then fixing the existing one. The QTS SSD is not removable.
But you can slide those drives into another Qnap (even a different model) and you can boot and continue where you left off.