How To Build a Raspberry Pi 4 NAS! (Pi 4/3/2B)

Today, we are going to look at how you make an epic DIY Raspberry Pi NAS using OpenMediaVault, and some differences between using different Raspberry Pis.

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[letsgobrandon]

Probably one of the best videos on an RP NAS I’ve seen yet

[alexjohnson]

Great video! Just FYI, Windows now comes with SSH via command line - Putty is still great, but Powershell/CMD SSH is also an option.

[obliviousrivinity]

First video where I fly through the tutorial without errors in the pi, thanks

[louiem]

Great video! Since I have about 5 ssd drivers sitting around. Would I be able to use a USB external device to connect all of them to one USB on the PI? I think the software you showed would be able to support all the drivers just finding how to connect them all. Plus finding a case for all the drives. Make it nice and clean.

[devaug]

Amazing video! Production was great and you paced through the video well allowing it to be followed easily. I plan to build out one of these using a Pi 4 before diving into building my own NAS. Thank you!

[RaspberryPiGirls]

Nice video. Learned a lot and finished my nas. You can increase volume in video editing app.

[QuantumBraced]

Can you encrypt your drives with this NAS setup?

[bigdamnhero]

How might one access this NAS outside of home network? would you also consider covering that? thanks

[jayrowe]

Good video. You could use a little more volume on your video, though.

[StephanLiebenberg]

Thanks! I can now say I have successfully finished my first raspberry pi project 😋 (with a salvaged 80gb hardrive from an old Windows 98 laptop 👀) I was concerned about power since it had a 700ma rating on the HDD, and I don't have a powered USB hub, but I encountered no issues.

I think I will get myself a 1tb HDD and enjoy the cloud experience 😊 ☁️

[mightyakkylex]

Do I have to wipe the drive? I have a lot of stuff on it I'd like to keep to actually access on my network

[DoctorProfessorPablo]

For those who might run into the same issues I did:
User: pi
Password: raspberry

[NuclearMozart]

Will this setup be accessible over an internet connection?

[KevinMarchese]

Good job man, clean video. loving OMV 6

[draven]

I have run a NAS from a 3 B+, I don't recommend it unless in a pinch. Anything below a 4 is going to be a struggle if you want anything above USB 2.0. I personally got tired of the lag in data transfer from my Rpi b3+ and ended up buying a used R720. Sure it's an energy hog, but at less than 100w average its been a great investment with the amount of things I run on it. The Rpi B3+ was a great learning experience, but it couldn't handle the load and I found myself needing to buy more pi's to support the things I wanted to do (not cheap). Granted my R720 isn't cheap either, but I'd rather buy a new drive than another unit and drives.

[youmongrel]

Can a pi be both a NAS (following your walkthrough) and a Plex server simultaneously? I have an 8TB WD powered external USB drive with my library on it, but I'm switching to a laptop-only household and still want to provide my family friends with Plex.

[Inquisitive-Badger]

Can you use this for a multi bay enclosure with its own power

[yantheman]

Great production quality and thank you so much for the helpful content. Hope your channel gets more sub it deserves!!!

[WrathOfVaz]

Thanks for the video. For a NAS does it make much difference whether you use the 2GB, 4GB or 8GB RAM Rasp Pi 4?

[yphon]

Nice video! You deserve more views dude