10-18-2019, 03:03 PM
Thanks, @CallMeMike, for pointing out the specific MagPi article. I was posting from my cellphone and was too lazy to look it up. Apart from using RAID technology, that NAS is pretty bare-boned Samba, like the Samba server built into every moOde image (anyone notice all the shares shown in my post above?).
@kit1cat points out OpenMediaVault as deployed on an RPi. I have been using OMV on a different platform (Odroid) for years. Like Synology's DSM, it provides a unified UI for a lot of different functions (as if Step 13 from the article above has already been done). It JustWorks™ but just as with Synology's DSM, you have to learn how the UI works.
Until the RPi4B came along, I didn't consider the Raspberry Pi a good NAS platform because of its I/O architecture, I have an ages-old x86 box which beats earlier RPis in this service, but it's what you do with what you've got that counts. RPis are cheap, small, quiet, energy efficient, and well supported. I've accumulated a figurative ton of them.
Regards,
Kent
@kit1cat points out OpenMediaVault as deployed on an RPi. I have been using OMV on a different platform (Odroid) for years. Like Synology's DSM, it provides a unified UI for a lot of different functions (as if Step 13 from the article above has already been done). It JustWorks™ but just as with Synology's DSM, you have to learn how the UI works.
Until the RPi4B came along, I didn't consider the Raspberry Pi a good NAS platform because of its I/O architecture, I have an ages-old x86 box which beats earlier RPis in this service, but it's what you do with what you've got that counts. RPis are cheap, small, quiet, energy efficient, and well supported. I've accumulated a figurative ton of them.
Regards,
Kent
