Pi4 for Home NAS Solution?

Tehkast · May 3, 2021

Evening all,

So I'm wondering what would be the best home network storage solution and I'm thinking a PI4 with a good size SD card and External drive could be a nice solution?

My goal would be to have 100% uptime so I could put it out of sight and mind and not need to worry about it, would be great to have low power draw or some sort of ramp down option?

Local network speeds seem to be some sort of issue will have to take that one to google later but would love to be able to have 25mb+ to move things back and forth (Locally)

I've never brought a NAS pre-made and only messed around with limited samba storage style things using a pi3 but it just doesn't cut what I need, is this possibly something where I'm better just buying the pre-made thing?

Money is rather limited (Bloody covid) £100 is sort of the budget for this project but for that would like to know its going to last a wee while.

Rather vague apologies but any suggestions are most welcome

Kind Regards.

BondiBlue · May 3, 2021

The Pi 4 is definitely the way to go for use as a NAS thanks to the slightly faster networking. However, it's still not going to be as fast as something with proper Gigabit ethernet because of how the network controller is connected on the Pi. For a low power NAS it should work alright.