Is a raspberry pi 3 enough for an ftp server?

[robigan]

Yes yes ik I could search it up but I'd like to ask people who know their shit cus I don't.
Anyways, in our household, we have a friend that manages our networking system, long story short, we have a bunch of photos on all devices and we wanted to unify them into one server/device. He recommended to use a low end synology NAS for this along side a maybe like RAID 1 configuration for redundancy because the photos have a special meaning to us. But I wanted to know, is it more cheaper to like make your NAS server using a raspberry pi with RAID 1, as this gives absolute control over the system or just go with that synology NAS server? Thanks for answering. If you want to ask me a quick question my discord is robigan#1634

Edit: I was thinking the Synology DS220+, and for raspberry pi I was thinking the 3, but I'd prefer to go with a raspberry pi NAS since I get to choose how it works, plus I could run other stuff with maybe like ESXi, also bc I have a 6TB WD My Cloud server and was thinking I could "attach" it to the raspberry pi and get another hard drive to use for the second RAID 1 drive

Edited December 5, 2020 by robigan

[Master Disaster]

There's a few misconceptions here.

 

The suggested method would use SMB, not FTP.

You couldn't do RAID on a Pi3 even if you wanted to.

A Ras Pi 3 only has 100Base networking or transfer speed of up to 10MBps (roughly).

You have total control over a Synology.

 

To answer your question, no a Ras Pi 3 is not a great device to use as a NAS, I know because I did it for 3 months before I got my Synology. It works sure but its so slow when transferring files its painful. A Pi 4 would be a better choice since they have Gigabit LAN on them.

 

If you can just get the Synology, it will cost more but it also does WAAAAAY more than just hold your files.

[robigan]

11 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

There's a few misconceptions here.

 

The suggested method would use SMB, not FTP.

You couldn't do RAID on a Pi3 even if you wanted to.

A Ras Pi 3 only has 100Base networking or transfer speed of up to 10MBps (roughly).

You have total control over a Synology.

 

To answer your question, no a Ras Pi 3 is not a great device to use as a NAS, I know because I did it for 3 months before I got my Synology. It works sure but its so slow when transferring files its painful. A Pi 4 would be a better choice since they have Gigabit LAN on them.

 

If you can just get the Synology, it will cost more but it also does WAAAAAY more than just hold your files.

Thanks for the knowledge you have shared, in that case then IF I were to use a Ras Pi then ok I'll use a Ras Pi 4, but I was still thinking abt using a Ras Pi 4 along side ESXi so... well bc it's cool... But ok I'll check out the Synology if you say I have that level of control

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, robigan said:

Thanks for the knowledge you have shared, in that case then IF I were to use a Ras Pi then ok I'll use a Ras Pi 4, but I was still thinking abt using a Ras Pi 4 along side ESXi so... well bc it's cool... But ok I'll check out the Synology if you say I have that level of control

You cannot run ESXi or a Ras Pi, its an X86 application and the Pi uses an ARM CPU. If you want the ability to run custom OSes then you might look into building something yourself. Synologys are great but are still more restricted than a custom build, you couldn't run ESXi on a Synology for example but if you build yourself you can run anything you choose on it.

[robigan]

2 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

You cannot run ESXi or a Ras Pi, its an X86 application and the Pi uses an ARM CPU. If you want the ability to run custom OSes then you might look into building something yourself. Synologys are great but are still more restricted than a custom build, you couldn't run ESXi on a Synology for example but if you build yourself you can run anything you choose on it.

Yes ik u can't you run ESXi on a Ras Pi but this video seems to be begging otherwise

 

[Master Disaster]

52 minutes ago, robigan said:

Yes ik u can't you run ESXi on a Ras Pi but this video seems to be begging otherwise

 

I had no idea this was even a thing. I'm gonna dig my Pi out tomorrow now.

[Sir Asvald]

47 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I had no idea this was even a thing. I'm gonna dig my Pi out tomorrow now.

I was also surprised as well although my Pi is only 1GB.

[robigan]

On 12/5/2020 at 8:46 PM, Master Disaster said:

I had no idea this was even a thing. I'm gonna dig my Pi out tomorrow now.

Ikr, wht's more, it's not even from some indian dude, this is from a highly reputable youtuber