Make a NAS with Raspberry Pi and OMV

In this video we will be creating our very own NAS (Network Attached Storage) with the Raspberry pi 3 B+. We will be using Open Media Vault (OMV) as our NAS software so we can build a RAID 1 Mirror with two Western Digital 4TB USB Hard drives. This video will be a bit long because I will go through every step in setting up your own Raspberry Pi NAS solution.

Links:

3D Printed base and Top

Open media vault

Western Digital 4TB My Book External Hard drive

Raspberry Pi 3 B+

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[christianbille]

you can format the drives and create filesystem from the webinterface, you don't need to ssh in to it to do that.

[informationtechnologyandco]

Hi, i can't see the RaspBerry Folder on the website

[JxckSweeney]

I’d suggest the Rock64 for a NAS like this that’s what I got running also with stable OMV works great has USB3 and GIG Ethernet get way better speeds that RP I didn’t chose the Odriod because I heard they where gonna stop making new ones. The hard drive I use is a WD Red 4TB in USB3 enclosure

[cjlowe]

Great video. Like how you show your mistakes.

[danieldougan]

I tried this. I had four USB drives in RAID powered by a separate USB hub, and it ended up being super crashy and unreliable. I broke down and bought a Synology NAS, and it has worked brilliantly.

I think the Pi4 might be more compelling for this because it has USB 3.0 ports.

[Synovyx]

Lost my microsd card reader and I don't want to buy a new one. Is it possible to install OMV (or other NAS software) via SSH?

[m.g.]

I hope you can help with this problem. I followed your explanations and everything worked very good, BUT:  OMV doesn't wann let me create a RAID-1 Mirror cause it says, that USB-Devices are too unstable and therefore they're not shown in the selection-box for the RAID (in the RAID-manager). But your video is for using USB-HDDs, right? I use Raspberry PI 3 B+, just as you, and the current OMV-version. Can you please help? Can anybody help? Thanks a lot!

[gplayer]

Super helpful video. Especially setting up the raid!! Would be great if you had a webpage or something with the exact steps taken and commands, post the troubleshooting. Many thanks!

[davektowner]

i have a RPI3 b, it was running octopi on for my laser engraver with no problems. i have got another Micro SD card (sandisk ultra 16gb) to try running OMV. i have downloaded the latest raspberry pi image, used etcher to create the bootable SD, however when i insert the SD card into the raspberry pi and power it up, all i get is the red power LED... the green activity LED stays off.... the raspberry pi puts no video signal out, and isnt visible on the network.

when use the same SD card to run octopi it runs fine, green LED flashes away happily, and its visible on the network..

so i know its not an SD card issue, i know the RPI is working fine.... so what can i try next?

id appreciate any suggestions

[RustyTube]

I am surprised it worked, given you set the minimum speed to be 2.5 times faster than the maximum speed Now, you _said_ you set it to fifty thousand (50000) but you _typed_ five hundred thousand

[mightysilly]

Great video. Im gonna try this next week

[Lynks]

Using the exact setup do you foresee any issues with running Plex on this? My goal is to build a NAS with RAID for redundancy but also configure it as a media server. If using multiple devices to stream from server will the pi be able to handle?

[beguigne]

Hi, great content, loved it and got my NAS and it works kinda, when transferring more than 5GB eventually the raspberry pi freezes and can’t be reached in the network having to reboot it. I have an ASUS router, not sure what’s going on here. I am a noob in Linux so could use some help to troubleshoot.

[vedat_orkun]

2 x 4 tb hdd is not attached to the device? Does the hdd get the power from the device? (i think USB 2.0 is not enough), is there a separate power supply?

[moshikof]

can i access this nas on my phone when im not at home ?

[jorenjoly]

Hello, I have a little question. I'm a student electronical engineering and I've worked with pi's before. From my experience, those things are super powerfull. Now i'm looking to make a backupserver that syncs automaticly when connected to internet, so I dont lose any data. Is a NAS a good solution for my problem, or do i just need to put 2 drives on it use something like Rsync and maybe a protected server like owncloud. After that I would love to make a picast device with a media station. Is it possible to do it with the same pi? Certainly going to checkout the livestream! Hoping you could give me a good direction for the backupserver, so i can look further into it!

[tonyboylevrai]

Hi, when i wrote mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 -L /MediaVault sda1 PuTTY answer to me The file /dev/sda1 does not exist and no size was specified. Can you help me ? :)

[danroden]

Made it up to the point of /proc/sys/dev/raid and get no such file or directory - basically 'raid' is not in 'dev' dir... any reason why this may be?

[thomasstorbugt]

Mine gives me two ip addresses on the router and none work.. cant connect it just says when typing in ip. Help??

[gabito.]

What you know about this problem? let me tell you: i recent bought a raspberry pi 3 b+ to use as nas with omv, but the raspi doesn't show video when i plug it on my monitor via hdmi, simply doesn't show anything! what can i do? thank you!