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PattonSteel
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I want to make a NAS for my brother and I in the cheapest way possible.

 

Currently I have the following:

3 TB HDDs

 

and that's about it.

 

How would I go about doing this?

I initially thought about using a rasberry pi, but I've never used one before.

 

I'm open to any suggestions.

Thanks.

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I'd advise against using a Raspberry Pi. Very low powered and not ideal for a NAS. You're going to be limited by the 100Mbps speeds. 

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1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

I'd advise against using a Raspberry Pi. Very low powered and not ideal for a NAS. You're going to be limited by the 100Mbps speeds. 

doesn't exactly matter, for most people NAS is a simple backup, speed doesn't matter for most people. 

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3 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

doesn't exactly matter, for most people NAS is a simple backup, speed doesn't matter for most people. 

I've got a Raspberry Pi 3 and it's was bad and I was the only one using it. The 100Mbps speeds was slow enough. 1GB of ram isn't enough. Not great. 

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Just now, Abdul201588 said:

I've got a Raspberry Pi 3 and it's was bad and I was the only one using it. The 100Mbps speeds was slow enough. 1GB of ram isn't enough. Not great. 

good enough for most people, long as you keep your expectations in check

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