PiNAS: Make your Raspberry Pi into an affordable NAS

[Redaktion]

With the PiNAS, you can put a Raspberry Pi to use as an inexpensive network-attached storage (NAS). The PiNAS can accommodate at least two drives and should be easy to configure.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/PiNAS-Make-your-Raspberry-Pi-into-an-affordable-NAS.454412.0.html

[floki]

completely nonsense, raspberry pi isn't suitable to be nas.
better is using on of those desktops from hp or dell with Haswell. stuff it with 12-16 Gigs of ram few HDDs. you can even start it on bundled Windows 10 if u like. raspberry pi is better for other thingz

[TomT]

I use an ODROID, 2 of the usb3 ports ,  2 toshiba 1TB drives and soft mirrors mdadm.  Gigb connected.  Works fine for me and is fast enough for NAS.  Pi would accomplish the same.

[Bruce Boyes]

Some actual benchmarks would tell us if this is practical.

[Travis Nelson]

The only PI model that's sensible to turn into a NAS is the 4, IMO.   All earlier models are limited to USB2 bandwidth, and that is shared between the drives and the network.   It's a recipe for very poor performance.   The pi 4 has gigabit Ethernet and USB 3, so it can make a useable NAS, though still not the best.

[Nate]

They really should have thought that name through a little more. Sounds a little too much like penis when you say it out loud.  ;D ;D

[Pavan]

completely nonsense, raspberry pi isn't suitable to be nas.
better is using on of those desktops from hp or dell with Haswell. stuff it with 12-16 Gigs of ram few HDDs. you can even start it on bundled Windows 10 if u like. raspberry pi is better for other thingz

It's not rubbish..the new raspi4 is more than capable to be a nas...I am using 5tb hdd and with just raspbian it works 24x7...I added omv5 on top of it and it's doing great and with plex its complete.

Did u consider running a pc 24x7 and how much power it consumes almost 5-10 times higher compared to raspi

Most of nas out there from synology or others mostly used arm processors...and the one a bit higher uses celeron mainly for power consumption.  So be sure to look at all aspects.

Having higher cpus like i3 or it will not make much difference unless you plan to transcode videos or run VM's or something more cpu intensive.

I have one readynas and one pi4 used as nas and both runs on Arm..and there were no issues running plex or using shares or accessing 4k videos with multiple people streaming at a time