Cheap offsite NAS with low power footprint

[ewook]

Mornings.

 

I'd like to share my experience here.

 

I needed like most of us a cheap off-site storage solution for private use. I ended up with a raspberry pi 3, and a 5TB usb external disk with it's own powersupply.

 

I simply loaded OpenMediaVault into the memorycard, and tada - I had a 5TB storage machine offsite working at sufficient speeds!

 

I did however end up connecting a identical 5TB drive, giving me well, 5+5.

It's not perfect, it's not super redundant. But for the cost, it rocks the socks out of most things.

 

[ProjectBox153]

What are the speeds like?

[ewook]

5 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

What are the speeds like?

Since the Pi does USB and ethernet on the same channels... Well, I can get the full 100mb out of it. So for gigantic backups, not so great - for logs and "normal" backups, it works just fine. My limitiations right now are the WAN connection on the other side (not the IPSEC tunnel it talks over).

[Josh Someone]

Nice idea, can you run the two 5TB HDD in a raid configuration (I sure its probably not possible or at least requires some program for your pi)

[ewook]

Just now, Josh Someone said:

Nice idea, can you run the two 5TB HDD in a raid configuration (I sure its probably not possible or at least requires some program for your pi)

That can be achieved with some tinkering within OpenMediaVault (https://www.openmediavault.org) - but, since the speed itself isn't that great - I simply do file-tossing on the pi itself once pushed over.

[Josh Someone]

ok