In-House Mass Storage

[EnergyAddict]

Evening guys!

 

I'm not doing this anytime soon- maybe a year out or so, and this is all speculation and this is mostly new to me (not technically but in regards to setting this all up and such). This falls into a lot of categories but Networking seemed to fir it best in my opinion, but anyways.. I'm just looking for suggestions and recommendations and insight/what to expect when I finally go head-first into the deep end and there is no going back.

 

Anyways, the idea is...

 

In-house cloud-like storage (just a set of drives anyone connected to the home network can map to and access). Now, I don't plan on making this accessible for anyone outside of the home network so don't worry about any of that as I understand it's a whole different ballgame. However, that's a fairly simple process but I had a few questions regarding. As I said, I never set this up personally so insight...

 

Can I manually password protect the drives you map to? Admin access permissions or not, can I force a password to access the drive(s) regardless? Although it's a home only network, if my neighbor magically figures out my password to the WiFi for example and he came over for dinner and saw the setup and yadda yadda, not likely but you get the idea. Even if someone was on the network can I still have that barrier to restrict access even if you mapped it successfully. Curious about the security permissions structure / walls you can put in place.

 

Encryption? Is it worth it? ... If it's a storage bank chances are it'll have PII and such on it. Again, doubt it'll happen but still something to bring up. Say you have 4 drives, and you encrypt a portion, how would it play into accessing the drive from another PC? Would it request the password for the encryption or since it's up and running would it just "decrypt" after the first access.

 

General tips on setting this all up for those of you who have?

 

These are probably some rookie questions in the grand scheme of IT, but I plan on moving out in the coming year and it's something I'd like to plan out and it's always nice to know what you can/can't do. If you're gonna geek out, you might as well go all in.

 

 

[Curufinwe_wins]

http://www.freenas.org/

 

Freenas is exactly what you are looking for. 

 

You can totally do password protection on sub-folders or entire drives (I actually have mine setup so anyone on the network can read my NAS data, but only specific password protected users can write to it).

 

Encryption is not something I don't do, and don't think is worth the speed slow down, although as far as very basic systems go, ZFS does stock shuffling and things.

[EnergyAddict]

5 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

http://www.freenas.org/

 

Freenas is exactly what you are looking for. 

 

You can totally do password protection on sub-folders or entire drives (I actually have mine setup so anyone on the network can read my NAS data, but only specific password protected users can write to it).

 

Encryption is not something I don't do, and don't think is worth the speed slow down, although as far as very basic systems go, ZFS does stock shuffling and things.

Booya~

 

You rock man. I'll look into this, thanks again.