Noob NAS questions

[NoobsWeStand]

Well, I might as well get to the questions:

 

Would you recommend that I build a NAS with a Raspberry Pi, and like an external HHD?

Second; If so, would it worth it to store steam games on the NAS?

 

I am on a 100Mbps ethernet network, if that helps

 

I tried googling, but I got mixed answers. Some people said it would work just fine, other people said no.

 

 

Thanks

[Redportal]

I had the same idea as you, I noticed that although many of my game did work from the nas. I soon noticed that only some of them would stream. Games that required extra preinstalls for them to work for example Call Of Duty would not get passed the pre-installs required for the game to launch. But if you plan on running small games such as super create box it should be fine.

[Atlantisman]

You could potentially make a small nas out of a pi.

 

Could you play games over it? doubtful. The performance would be quite low.

 

So at best it would be useful for storing some files/backups.

[xox]

I'd recommend it, tinkering is always good, but I wouldn't use it long-term for serious things.

[NoobsWeStand]

Thank for a more clear answer  

I guess I will just buy a 32gb SD card, and see how that goes. (I know, that Hard Drive would be way faster) If that is fine with small indie games, then I might jump on a hard drive

 

[Atlantisman]

Thank for a more clear answer  

I guess I will just buy a 32gb SD card, and see how that goes. (I know, that Hard Drive would be way faster) If that is fine with small indie games, then I might jump on a hard drive

FYI, SD cards are not meant for lots of writes, you may end up losing your data after not a lot of time doing that.

[ohJey]

Thank for a more clear answer  

I guess I will just buy a 32gb SD card, and see how that goes. (I know, that Hard Drive would be way faster) If that is fine with small indie games, then I might jump on a hard drive

You can get a CubieBoard, which has a stronger CPU and a sata port

[Ahnzh]

RaspberryPi NAS builds are possible. not too powerful but as a simple backup/NAS without too much around it it's doing fine. Motherboards with an embedded Atom on it cost around 100$. if you got some older PC parts, you can build a low power NAS with a bit more power than a Raspberry, install nas4Free on it and you are ready to rock.

[SadTech]

You can get a CubieBoard, which has a stronger CPU and a sata port

that is cool... I would never make a NAS out of a rasberry pi though.. I would jsut get a old case and throw some older but decent hardware in it then toss tons of hard drives in, maybe RAID 5 it for performance and redundancy.

[ignasio]

You're gonna get significantly lower performance when copying files over ethernet to external drive connected to Raspberry Pi because it shares USB bus with ethernet.