quesion NAS like solution on PC while keeping the PC functionality.

[Neeg]

Hi I want to ged rid of all of my Hard drives which I just plug Into my computer and get a more proper solution. I want to pool some Drives in my PC and in the best case be able to access them remotely, while stille being able to use the PC. Therefore I probably won't use virtualisation and NAS operation system for the time being. My current idea is to just use RAID 5 or create a Windows Storage Pool with similar redundancy and then use Windows File sharing. This will probably be fine for most use cases, since I'll mostly use I at home but I won't be able to access my files remote. Do you have an Idea for a solution, that will be not that time consuming to set up and allow me to access my data remotely? Thanks in advance. 

[voyager_]

Windows storage pool would be probably the easiest way then set up a vpn for remote access. Another option is to look into using a rasperry pi and external drive enclosure store the drives. There are a ton of videos and forum posts on making one 

[Neeg]

10 minutes ago, voyager_ said:

Windows storage pool would be probably the easiest way then set up a vpn for remote access. Another option is to look into using a rasperry pi and external drive enclosure store the drives. There are a ton of videos and forum posts on making one 

I also thought of using a raspberry Pi but I don't want to buy anything right now. A VPN could be a good way. Do I host it myself or how does this work with a VPN? Do you have some kind of article to point me to?

[jaslion]

22 minutes ago, Neeg said:

I also thought of using a raspberry Pi but I don't want to buy anything right now. A VPN could be a good way. Do I host it myself or how does this work with a VPN? Do you have some kind of article to point me to?

If you do a nas just get a old office pc. A pi 4 is just really slow for a nas. Like 12MB/s copy speeds max sometimes.

[LIGISTX]

Windows storage spaces would be fine… 

 

And you can run WireGuard on your PC as a way to tunnel into your own network when away. Plenty of guides and YouTube videos on how to set this up. 

[Neeg]

7 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

Windows storage spaces would be fine… 

 

And you can run WireGuard on your PC as a way to tunnel into your own network when away. Plenty of guides and YouTube videos on how to set this up. 

Thanks, I'll try that

[Neeg]

8 hours ago, jaslion said:

If you do a nas just get a old office pc. A pi 4 is just really slow for a nas. Like 12MB/s copy speeds max sometimes.

I have one, but if I wanted to run It 24/7 the energy costs would be pretty high. I might use Wake on Lan, but for now I don't want to spend that much time.

[LIGISTX]

25 minutes ago, Neeg said:

I have one, but if I wanted to run It 24/7 the energy costs would be pretty high. I might use Wake on Lan, but for now I don't want to spend that much time.

What’s your electricity cost? It’s likely not THAT high. 

[jaslion]

2 hours ago, Neeg said:

I have one, but if I wanted to run It 24/7 the energy costs would be pretty high. I might use Wake on Lan, but for now I don't want to spend that much time.

What cpu? Keep in mind idle power is usually quite low

[Neeg]

6 hours ago, jaslion said:

What cpu? Keep in mind idle power is usually quite low

It's probably an Xeon® Prozessor X3330 in an Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX100 S1 Server, the power draw in the spec Sheed is way higher than I would want. 

[jaslion]

4 minutes ago, Neeg said:

It's probably an Xeon® Prozessor X3330 in an Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX100 S1 Server, the power draw in the spec Sheed is way higher than I would want. 

Yeah thats a core 2 xeon super old power draw at idle is like 25w since its a very old chip.

 

Wouldnt even use that if power wasnt an issue as its old and really slow