Raspberry Pi 4 OpenMediaVault NAS

Raspberry Pi 4 OMV NAS tutorial, including hardware selection, software installation and configuration. This video explains all you need to know to start using a Pi 4 -- or any other Raspberry Pi -- for sharing files across a local area network (LAN) using OpenMediaVault.

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[rorschacht]

Most of the time I watch just purely for entertainment, I have usually have no plans to actually do what is being explained. This one time is an exception and it's so easy to follow along.

[stanpotter]

Cheers from the U.S. You're my new favorite channel! I've officially added this to my list of pi projects. Not only do you explain the project itself amazingly clearly, but I love that you include the names of programs you use, and even where to download them! I've added at least 2 or 3 tools to my toolbox because of your videos. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! :)

[dylandowdy]

Thank you for exposing in detail, as a beginner to computers it makes a huge difference when trying to learn. 🙏

[straycat]

Hi Christopher, I know I'm late to the party, but thanks had some down time and a raspberry Pi and followed your tutorial and now have a fully working NAS no more running around with a usb disk drive backing up the family computers. I really enjoy your programs and have followed a few years now. Regards. Stray

[dj_paultuk]

If your going to build a NAS for home use, and you really want to Build one, rather than purchase a dedicated unit. Then i recommend FreeNAS. I recently made use of a old Dell i5 PC. Installed FreeNAS to boot off a fast USB key. Then fitted 4x 4TB drives inside the PC which FreeNAS has setup in RAID5 for redundancy. All i had to buy was the drives, since i already had the PC. And i decided to fit a Intel Pro 1000 Server NIC card, rather than the on-board one. Its absolutely superb. The old Dell is near silent and now we have a huge NAS for the entire family to use. The kids now keep all their college work on it rather than locally on their laptops which could get lost. The data is secure and has good redundancy. win win...

[Stoney_Eagle]

THE tutorial I needed ages ago, it covers the "is it right for me" and the how to. Great job 😉

[stephenlittle]

I am always interested on how you make things work so easy that we can understand how to do it ourselves. Thanks for all your hard work.

[wilfridoa.landaira]

This is the first video of yours that I've watched, and you're such a good teacher. I enjoyed your suggestion to go talk to some ducks.

[nolanmcclain]

Hi Chris, just commenting in case anyone else had the same problem I did. After following all your steps, I went to map network drive and tried to browse for the shared folder but windows was not detecting any network drives, even after I made sure network discovery was turned on. The problem was, I had to go to Control Panel>Programs and Features>on the left hand side click "Turn Windows features on or off'>scroll down and make sure "SMB 1.0" is checked. I believe is unchecked by default in later windows 10 versions. After restarting, I was then able to detect the raspberrypi network drive. ONE MORE STEP, windows security now wants log in credentials for the Pi which by default is Username: pi Password:raspberry. Now finally I was able to map the shared folder I created in OpenMediaVault and it works just fine. Hope this helps someone out there!

[ThriftyAV]

I've been thinking about an NAS... I had not considered the Raspberry Pi option! Thank you for this excellent idea. This is going to happen!

[jackkreighbaum]

I used a previous video from ExplaningComputers to configure a NAS for my home system and it works flawlessly. Thanks, Christopher.

[srdansavkovic]

For everyone coming to this video in the late 2020 like myself please note that USB drives are not supported for raid setup in OMV. You can still mount them individually but no RAID goodness.

[johnfairfield]

Excellent video. I followed along with my PI 4. Only problem I had was I used a USB that was formatted from the factory in xFat. I got an error when I tried to create the share and allow guests only. Unmounted the drive, reformatted on my PC. Remounted the drive on the PI and everything worked perfectly. Was never sure it had really finished installation. But after enjoying two cups of coffee, I was able to web into my PI. Perfect! Always love these videos

[frezeee]

The way you explain stuff is very informational helpful. Most tech youtubers do not explain how these software and hardware configuration goes in a real life situation like you do. Subscribed!

[ijabbott]

The low write speed could be due to using NTFS on the network drive. It would be interesting to compare it with a native Linux filesystem such as ext4.

[sendgl]

Bet the Raspberry Pi Foundation never imagined their devices would be used for all these different projects, absolutely amazing. I have two (zeros) scanning live aircraft traffic.

[richardhobson]

Really interesting. I have a pi 3 sat doing nothing at the moment. I’ll also be looking at whether open media vault can raid drives or if there is an auto backup solution so that the shared drive is protected. Food for thought. Great video.

[geoffhalsey]

I did try OpenMediaVault out on my home server a Thecus N5810PRO Nas, last year. It worked without any problems and recognised the existing Raid setup too. A very versatile Nas OS indeed.

[adunford]

Excellent clear explanation as always, very encouraging. As a low cost experiment I built a media server with a Pi 1 model B Rev 1.3 running librelec Kodi. Attached an old sata HD to it. Cable connection to my router, using the usb output to power the Pi. All bits I had lying around. The music can be accessed by my iPhone on a Sonos app through the Sonos system, no other software setup required. Kodi is very easy to use. Took about 2 hours in total.

[jackhickey]

I really appreciate the effort and care that went into this guide. It helped me get my NAS up and running, thanks! p.s. you may have mentioned this but I had to erase the disk and reformat it in ext-4 for it to be recognized as a device when creating a Shared Folder. It was in ex-FAT.