How To Make A Raspberry Pi NAS

Adding a storage device your network is called creating a NAS (Network Attached Storage). And basically it is just a minimalistic computer with a boat load of storage attached to it. So using a Raspberry Pi as our minimalistic computer, let's create our own Network Attached Storage. You can find the project page for this video at this link:

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[mariobranco]

Great video.
Remove the sound of the green url bar plz.

[Bbogita]

Argh! That green bar zapping noise is really annoying. Please remove it for the next video.

[pcbheaven]

I like this one! Featured in pcbheaven

[novamaster]

In case anyone's having issues mounting it into /media/NASdrive/Shared, seems to cause the pi to mount the external hard drive into the SD card which means that once the SD card gets full it no longer holds data
Instead I've found that if you mount the drive to /mnt and edit fstab to include it, you get the full size. I hope this helps someone I wracked my brain trying to get this to work.
(Look up a generic guide on how to mount external hard drives for more inf)

[CoolAsFreya]

Why can't the "shared" folder be accessed at all, what you are doing isn't sharing into the storage, or even using the external drive, it's using samba to access the user's files

[teacherofthings]

I just want to THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!! I love your videos! Keep up the good work!!

[dancoster]

Thanks, works fine and has been stable for the last 4 months

[mrRapkis]

Hey, Tinkernut! I love your videos and how everything you make is very practical. I have a favour to ask you. Could you possibly make a video on how to reuse or repurpose an old laptop and/or android device? All I could find on the internet was either a home media center, a home security system or just ripping a laptop apart and making a monitor. Could you possibly do a video about more ideas? That would be awesome!

[my_johnlee]

what is the attached mini screen/monitor called? Seem handy

[EminoMeneko]

I understand this is for only one disk and it is not so bad but I wonder if it would be possible to do a NAS for several disks based on Respberry Pi.

[robin_be]

Why do you show pictures of a raspberry pi model A w/o ethernet port? ;p

[connorhetzler]

when you edited the conf file how did you save it?

[putinscat]

Is this guy flying airplanes from the 1920s?

[anilingus]

What is the miniature display called? Looks kinda neat.

[codaassasin]

1:33

if I need exfat for mac support as well, do I just replace ntfs with exfat? Or do i need to change the -3g thing too?

[TechXSoftware]

I noticed your using a Mac OSX, and in your other videos your using windows, so have you been using windows in a virtual machine?

[fridgdog]

Love my 4tb pi nas. Use it every day! I get 5-10 mb/s transfer to and from. Not very fast but fast enough to watch 1080p video no problem. You can use BitTorrent sync to access your files anywhere without port forwarding. Great vid as always!

[hikaru-live]

You should notice that this works for desktops as well, actually better there. I used not only just a desktop, but also NAS-grade hard drives and a hardware RAID card to improve performance as I have the need to stream multiple HD video feeds off that NAS.

Also if you keep your hard drive to the Linux you can go with ext4 filesystem. For Apple folks you can use netatalk with avahi-daemon in place of samba and that will also support Time Capsule backup.

[DesparaT]

Wow... you really know your stuff Tinkernut....

[parallaxggyt]

What was the little monitor/screen you used?