Build your own NAS! A custom Raspberry Pi build with OpenMediaVault and an Argon One M2 Case

If you want to build a Network Attached Storage device on a Raspberry Pi, this video is for you. Using a Raspberry Pi 4, the Argon One M.2 case, and OpenMediaVault - I show you how to build a NAS of your very own. I'll cover an unboxing of the case, assembly, OS tweaks, and I'll go over a one-line command to install OpenMediaVault.

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01:26 - What do you need to get started?
03:51 - Downloading Raspberry Pi OS and Preparing the SD card
07:27 - Unboxing the case and assembly
18:59 - Setting the hostname, updates, tweaks, etc
22:17 - Installing the safe shutdown script
23:13 - Installing OMV and formatting the SSD

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[markharrisllb]

I’m very new to the world of the SBC and chose the 8gb RAM Raspberry Pi 4 and the Argon One M.2. I even have the same Kingston A400 240Gb SSD. I have nothing to compare it to but I have to say I’m really pleased this set up, thus far I've not found it lacking in any way for the purpose I bought it. Even though I've overclocked CPU to 2GHz and GPU to 750 I have never been at over 56°C, but I don’t do any gaming and stick to basic computing on it. You’ve now given a good reason to buy another.

[shaileshsaxena]

Thank you for a good practical project. I recommend that you also try to configure the Raspberry Pi to boot from the SSD and there by eliminating the need to access the SD card inside the Argon case. The SSD boot can be configured from the raspi-config utility directly.

[TradersTradingEdge]

Hello Jay.

I have the same setup, . but booting from the M.2 which increases the I/O speed and boot time dramatically (...and I also don't trust SD-Cards that much hehe...).

In case someone doesn't know how to:

1. do the standard SD-Card setup, but don't attach the bottom of the case with M.2 or USB3-Adapter for now. Just leave the case open and put it aside. So, you start the RPi without the USB3 adapter and without the bottom of the case attached, but with the SD-Card in.

2. Start the Pi

3. when started up, attach the bottom of the case and the USB3 adapter. Now the system will find the new M.2. in /dev/

4. use the command: lsblk to find the device name of the M.2, where we want to write the whole system from SD-Card on it. Let's say, it's /dev/sdb
Also, note the name of the system, the SD-Card.

6. Now we just copy the whole system from the SD-Card to the M.2: dd bs=4M if=/dev/NameOfSystemDrive of=/dev/NameOf_M.2_Drive status=progress So for example: dd bs=4M if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=progress

In case the command is not working, double check that you have the capital "M "in the bs=4M part.

This takes a while. When done, shut down the RPi and remove the SD-Card. Put the case & USB3 adapter together and start the RPi with lightspeed ;-)

That's it, happy weekend and thanks for your great work Jay, I learn a ton from your book and videos.

[try-that]

Nice to see OMV being looked at. I use it on a HP deskelite Sff 4th gen I5. I mainly use docker containers, but if you allow testing plugins, then you can use a new KVM plugin.
The developer is starting to try and get Arm stuff working.
But its nice to be able to spin up VMs from OMV.

Looking forward to see what happens

[woolfy]

I went from a Pi NAS to getting a WD cloud NAS (Reading how much better it would be). I started getting random freezing while transferring files and it's just horrible in general. Decided to go back to my PI 4 NAS, again. Should have never bought that damn thing. Hope to try out this video tutorial and get it all setup again. Thanks!

[wingkeung]

Funny how I was looking for exactly this!

[jyvben]

The bottom part could be expanded to a double drive with mirrored drives, argon or other could do it, any m2 expanders ?
Powering it may be the bottleneck, but if bottom shell is replaced that could have a powerjack for the drives(+pi).
Sd card can be removed if you activate usb boot.

[ShyneflowLC]

I love your tutorials.... Simply the best around imo

[MySqueezingArm]

It's been a little bit since I've been able to watch a video. The new intro is awesome.

[waynenewark]

I like the fact that I can upgrade my existing Argon One case to add the M.2 option.

[gittesilberglarsen]

@4:42. Not entirely correct: Actually you cant install OMV on a desktop version of pi. Installer abort with an error stating this.

[AdHdEntertainmentLLC]

I am going to hopefully be putting mine together as my m.2 board came!

[nickkobe]

You do a great job! Best learning video on You Tube. Thank you!!!

[LennyLacey]

How about forgoing the SD card and booting and running from USB drive. Seems to me an SD card with reads and writes would wear out?

[ShyneflowLC]

Amy help on how I would be able to access the nas Thati set up using this when I'm not home?

[mrmotofy]

Maybe some info on the Backup option in the Systems section

[chrisumali]

Thanks for the demo and info, I finally was able to get around my Argon purchase, and with this video, setup everything plain easy. Have a great day

[jacquesredmond]

Do you have an updated version of this video for 2024 using Pi 5?

[vakobolt]

One more question: can I run OMV in my RPi zero? :D

[SpicyPoison]

What i need to do to access this NAS files anywhere in the world with internet?

In Windows, i used this google drive for desktop application. I want to mimic this with my NAS. Instead of paying for storage on google drive for my data, i would rather have my own NAS cloud.

You don't have to teach me how to do this. You just guide me towards the right path and I'll learn all the required skills by my own for this to happen.