NAS, Server, or some mix?

[Novirius]

I currently have a Raspberry Pi running CentOS I use for practicing Linux and running my own website (Just for fun). I am potentially interested in a NAS and would like to combine these interests. Should I just run a home server? Should I just attach a NAS to my pi? I don't plan to have many visitors on my site (Think less than triple digits), so I'm not worried about scaling. It's mostly just for fun.

[Electronics Wizardy]

How many TB of storage do you want on this nas?

 

You can easily setup a nas on basically any pc by making a network share. Check out samba on linux.

[Novirius]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

How many TB of storage do you want on this nas?

 

You can easily setup a nas on basically any pc by making a network share. Check out samba on linux.

Good question. I don't have an immediate use, so it's all hypothetical. I could see myself going with 8TB HDD if they get marked down during BF. 

[SupaKomputa]

Plug some drive to the pi and shared them to the network, viola a Network Attached Storage.

[Novirius]

3 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Plug some drive to the pi and shared them to the network, viola a Network Attached Storage.

Should I not be worried about CPU/RAM bottlenecks from a pi? 

[SupaKomputa]

For a single person usage, no, as most of budget NAS box have the same (if not worse) cpu than the Pi.

I still have a Nas box with only 400mhz single threaded cpu.

[Novirius]

Just now, SupaKomputa said:

For a single person usage, no, as most of budget NAS box have the same (if not worse) cpu than the Pi.

I still have a Nas box with only 400mhz single threaded cpu.

Oh damn, ok. I never looked into specs and just assumed it was better than pi. Thanks.

[SupaKomputa]

Check this video, might give you an idea how to set it up.