Raspberry Pi NAS

[WarsawWarrior]

I got a Raspberry Pi and wanted to use it by plugging in my external hard drives into it and excessing those drives through my network through the Raspberry Pi. I know it'll be slow, but I would just use it to transfer pictures basically. The problem I have is that I want to have a dual boot os where I can either boot the NAS os or the default Rasbian os. I bought a NOOBS sd card with the Raspberry Pi and wanted to know how to add a NAS os to NOOBS. Thanks!

[Gjallahorn]

I think it's much easier to just switch the cards if you need to run another OS. For running a NAS i would use OpenMediaVault.

[Electronics Wizardy]

you can just use raspbian as the nas, no reason to use a different os, just install samba.

[manikyath]

why not just make a samba share on raspbian? it's really not harder than that.

 

has to be said tho, it'll be slower than you expect. the pi's ethernet jack and ALL usb ports go trough a single USB2.0 link.

[Tsuki]

the thing with noobs to my knowledge, is that its just multiple installers on it, if you switch your os with noobs, it wipes the drive except the noobs partition.

you're better off just using Samba like others have mentioned, or changing out sd card

[manikyath]

 

the thing with noobs to my knowledge, is that its just multiple installers on it, if you switch your os with noobs, it wipes the drive except the noobs partition.

you're better off just using Samba like others have mentioned, or changing out sd card

i've actually heard that noobs is harder to install than regular raspbian

[samiscool51]

4 hours ago, manikyath said:

i've actually heard that noobs is harder to install than regular raspbian

yep, done it, not fun.... at all....