My brother in law recently found a Buffalo Terastation Pro, 4-bay enclosure, on the side of the road [complete with drives]. It appears to be operational just veeeeeeeeeeeery slow. We're contemplating gutting it and, if possible, re-kitting it with new hardware capable of handling FreeNAS.
I've looked at the motherboard and mount points and it appears to be proprietary and doesn't seem to match miniITX or any other motherboard forms. However, I don't claim to be an expert on all possible motherboard forms.
Has anyone tried to gut a Buffalo box [or something of similar size] and make it worthy of FreeNAS?

Buffalo Terastation Ts-htgl/r5 Firmware

Buffalo Ts-htgl/r5 Firmware Update

Sending 1/1 received ACP Discovery reply ACP analysis result: Found: TS-HTGL20D (/nasip) TS-HTGL/R5(YOSHINOBU) (ID=bla) mac: bla Firmware= 1.350 Key=bla Found: TS-HTGL20D (/nasip) TS-HTGL/R5(YOSHINOBU) (ID=bla) mac: bla Firmware= 1.350Key=bla Sending 1/2 received ACP special command reply ACP analysis result: ACPSTATEOK Trying to. TFTP Boot TS-HTGL-R5 1.20.exe (bottom of the list) Firmware for the 'TS-HTGL: TS-HTGL/R5: TeraStation™ Pro II' - UK site. Step 5 TeraStation Live(HS-DHTGL) FIRMWARE PASSWORD 1.13 IeY8omJwGlGkIbJm2FHMV4fLsXE8ieu0gNYwE6Ty.

Ts-htgl/r5 Custom Firmware

I have for sale a Buffalo Terastation PRO commercial grade NAS. Model number TS-HTGL/R5. My dear kuttichathan movie child actors name. With firmware level 1.35. This is in full working order which runs nice and quietly. It has been connected to my Mac based network and purred along faultlessly. It is a 4 Bay NAS, and has currently. System Status (System Information) This page shows you the System Information for your TeraStation. Firmware updates are occasionally available from www.buffalotech.com for the TeraStation Pro. These must be executed from a Windows PC on the same network. Your router, switch, or hub should pass through ports 8873 and 22939 for this to work.

Ts Htgl R5 Firmware