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Jtalk4456
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Maybe i'm a bit naive in this matter, but how hard would it be to hook a few drives to a raspberry pi and set up raid for use as a NAS, versus leaving a computer on with a bunch of hard drives in it? Nas enclosures are way more expensive than I expected

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This was recently asked. In short, it'd be a lot easier to get an old free Dell OptiPlex and use FreeNAS. You'll have a lot better experience. The RPi has 10/100 ethernet which would be limited to 12.5 MB/s, USB 2 (meaning you'd need docks or adapters), and power limitations. An old Dell (Core 2 Duos are wonderful) would work fine as a NAS. You'd get 10/100/1000 ethernet (125 MB/s), SATA, and more CPU power. Look at my signature and you'll see the system I'm using as my NAS. 

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If you did get it working you'd only have software RAID which is complete trash since all the HDDs effectively lose their information is say, you accidentally wiped your SD card.

 

I'd recommend a NAS with an Rpi (preferably the newest one) and just sticking a bunch of drives to it with Samba/FTP enabled.

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Choose whatever you need. Any more, you're wasting your money. Any less, and you don't get the features you need.

 

Only you know what you need to do with your computer, so nobody's really qualified to answer this question except for you.

 

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Just now, Jtalk4456 said:

help me out what is Rpi and what does samba/ftp enabled mean

RPi = Raspberry Pi

SMB = Form of network share, used for local shares.

FTP = Other form of network share, common for internet shares. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

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2 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

RPi = Raspberry Pi

SMB = Form of network share, used for local shares.

FTP = Other form of network share, common for internet shares. 

thanks

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file transfer protocol and server message block! I should've known that, it just hit me

I can't believe I forgot those terms. :S

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