Raspberry Pi for family storage

[★ Coups ★]

I am interested in making a Raspberry Pi into a NAS solution that can be accessed from anywhere, so family and friends can find photos and other such items. 

 

Is this possible, and worth the investment? It sounds like a fun project

[NoobCase]

4 minutes ago, ★ Coups ★ said:

I am interested in making a Raspberry Pi into a NAS solution that can be accessed from anywhere, so family and friends can find photos and other such items. 

 

Is this possible, and worth the investment? It sounds like a fun project

The pi is not that well equipped to do so, but it is totally doable and pretty cheap. Just google raspberry pi NAS 

[★ Coups ★]

2 minutes ago, NoobCase said:

The pi is not that well equipped to do so, but it is totally doable and pretty cheap. Just google raspberry pi NAS 

Is there any mini stuff that are better equipt to do so, and are cheap?

 

Thanks

[Zando_]

Just now, ★ Coups ★ said:

Is there any mini stuff that are better equipt to do so, and are cheap?

 

Thanks

I doubt it. And like you said, it'll be a fun project and tinkering is always good!

[★ Coups ★]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

I doubt it. And like you said, it'll be a fun project and tinkering is always good!

Is it possible to get it online for other people to access from my house? 

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, ★ Coups ★ said:

Is it possible to get it online for other people to access from my house? 

IDK. Should be. I'd look into lightweight Linux server solutions with a GUI. 

[TaylorSwiftOrNon]

7 minutes ago, ★ Coups ★ said:

Is there any mini stuff that are better equipt to do so, and are cheap?

The Asus Thinker Board is better equipt because its cpu ist more powerfull and it has gigabit ethernet

[aeroencychris]

6 minutes ago, TaylorSwiftOrNon said:

The Asus Thinker Board is better equipt because its cpu ist more powerfull and it has gigabit ethernet

Looks nice but you could also just use something like a Pi clone with gigabit ethernet, no need for a better CPU for a NAS

http://a.co/4qU55r8

[vorticalbox]

5 minutes ago, ★ Coups ★ said:

Is it possible to get it online for other people to access from my house? 

you'll have to port forward to the pi, this setting is on your router. You'll want to set up something like https://dnsdynamic.org/ so that you can have a web address rather than having to tell everyone your new ip should it change. 

 

Do remember you're be allowing public access to your pi and all your data so keep it up to date, just look at wanna cry and please don't use user:pass as the login. Make it secure.

3 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

IDK. Should be. I'd look into lightweight Linux server solutions with a GUI. 

agree with this, though headless might save on resources Linux is light any way, my Ubuntu budgie desktop stills at 700 mb ram used and gpu around 0~2%.

 

13 minutes ago, ★ Coups ★ said:

Is there any mini stuff that are better equipt to do so, and are cheap?

 

Thanks

You could be a NAS I have a dlink share centre 320 that I use for my file back and used to be for media play back but I have since moved that to my desktop. 

[unijab]

Depending on your internet speeds... the RPi will likely be fast enough to keep up.

[unijab]

Should use something like this ... SD cards dont take well to tons of writes...

 

http://wdlabs.wd.com/category/wd-pidrive/

[Electronics Wizardy]

35 minutes ago, ★ Coups ★ said:

Is there any mini stuff that are better equipt to do so, and are cheap?

 

Thanks

how about a synology nas, much faster and a good interface.

[★ Coups ★]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

how about a synology nas, much faster and a good interface.

And much more expensive. 

[NoobCase]

38 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

how about a synology nas, much faster and a good interface.

Solved by adding an external USB hdd. Slow but better.

 

the greatest advantage the pi has over the clones such as bananapi is the community. As well as being cheaper.

[ChalkChalkson]

I wrote an unraid guide last weekend, you should find anything you need there, most stuff can be done on other Linux distris, too

 

[foxp3]

Im not too happy with raspberry because it only has 100mbit ethernet. My backups take forever. Id rather buy a synology. It will give you a ton of extra features to get started with random home projects.

[Mikensan]

You could use your personal desktop to share the files, that'd be my recommendation. The major cost no matter your solution are going to be the disks. You can get a used Core 2 duo/quad for under $100 and flip it into a NAS and get significantly better speeds than the pi. You might get lucky and find an older i3/i5 machine for just over $100.