Diy Nas Server Raspberry Pi. If you have an unused raspberry pi and a few hard drives lying around, you can make one yourself without spending a dime. By using a linux distro called openmediavault, we can quickly and easily create a raspberry pi nas box.
To know more about it, you can refer to the official documentation of using kodi with raspberry pi (which is one of the media server software available). Super small easy to build simple setup cheap perfect for learning about network, file system, security mech… Usually, the only reason to invest in dedicated nas hardware is when extreme performance and redundancy become concerns.
Today i’ll show you how to build a raspberry pi 3/4 raid nas server using usb flash drives and the linux native raid application mdadm, along with samba so the drive will show up as a normal network folder on windows pc’s.
Many upses can communicate their status to your raspberry pi over usb, so a safe shutdown can be triggered. [optional] an external storage device, like a hard drive, plugged into the pi. Navigate to the sourceforge page. Host name raspberry pi → ip address.