Build A Raspberry Pi NAS For $35 Using All New Parts

In this video, we're going to be building a Raspberry Pi based NAS using all new parts for only $35. This is obviously not going to be fast or have a significant amount of storage, but it'll be great for a first-time NAS build to learn how they work and how to set them up.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Selecting NAS Components
2:47 Making The Enclosure
4:01 Installing Components
5:17 Flashing OS & System Boot
6:27 Installing OMV
9:22 Testing The NAS
10:57 Final Thoughts

If you've got any ideas for Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or other Electronics projects or tutorials you'd like to see, let me know in the comments section.

[theabyss]

The problem is that the original Pi Zero 2 costs now about 50$.

[frroossst]

I've been wanting to do this for a while, but all the other tutorials were too complicated, this is perfect, thanks!

[kenrock]

That's the cutest Nas I ever seen

[azoresmarine]

Fascinating . My first university course was 1977, my first computer was 1987 (a 285) I think) My first hard drive was 100 mega bites and $1500 dollars. Keep up this fascinating work. Thank you

[loucinci]

Very cool. Just what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing

[WalterDeans]

This is awesome. I already have a DIY NAS using a mini PC, but I also have a Pi Zero unused after moving my ad blocker to my NAS. I think this would work great as an emergency backup, potentially offsite (at a friends house or family member), and have it sync once a day. Thank you for this, I'm looking forward to more projects like this one!

[ImbraWolf]

i spun up a NAS today and its awesome i never used a NAS before but i can say i like it

[frauseo]

Love it! I would add a clamp to the case to secure the cable

[kennethrowe]

Been running a very similar setup for several years. Using Open Media Vault with a pi 3 / wired Ethernet / external 128 gb SSD. My transfer speeds 10-12 MB/s down, 6-8 MB/s up.

[rhiantaylor]

I bought a WD 160GB NAS back in 2006 and I still use it a lot, though I also have Terabytes of other network attached drives. My point is that a small always-on NAS using near-zero power can be a useful tool or scratchpad to have around the house but anything built on a RPI will soon show its shortcomings if you try to expand it into something more.

[coreoocoreoo]

I have an odroid xu4 with two 3TB drives and one 500GB sata SSD running Open Media Vault with docker. It's perfect for gigabit LAN, goes max when copying files. Running Plex in docker. Can easily transcode 1080p. 3TB drives are mirrored, 500GB SSD is for docker containers, music and photos for plex for faster acces and not needing to spin up hard drives everytime I listen to music from plex.

[null]

I'd love to see it upgraded to hold multiple mechanical hard drives. Picture a slot system where they could connect reusing old hard drives as short term storage for temp files.

[rhiantaylor]

I have built much the same and my experience was that it is essential to use a quad core Pi so Pi 2/3/4 or indeed the Pi Z 2 W as described. The second point is that you should ideally format your storage in ext4 or similar - if you use NTFS for example you will use half your CPU cycles with the NTFS conversion layer. Many USB external storage devices will come initially formatted NTFS.

[gowinfanless]

Wonderful video and crazy idea to make it happened!!

[Fred-]

I am soooo glad I bought 4 PI Zero 2W's a few years ago when Microcenter had them for $3.14 on Pi Day (March 14)

[mxs]

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that he literally engraved "Pi NAS" into the side of the housing but still chose "mininas" as the hostname?

[Bianchi]

Nice info, thank you for sharing it, keep it up :)

[ninline]

Interesting project. I think a Pi4 is the minimum I'd want to use, though. USB3 is a game changer.

[mahtin]

Two comments to improve things. 1) You set the hostname when you flashed the micro SD card. That’s the hostname you should use for your ssh command. No need to hunt down the IP address. It’s broadcast to all your hosts via MDNS. You should never need to use the IP address in any step in the process (did you see “mininas” show up on your windows file browser? 2) Did you really disable IPv6? Why? It’s fully usable out-of-the-box by nearly every device on your local wifi network. Plus, if point 1 above is used, then you’ll use v4 or v6 as-needed. It’s 2023, and v6 is nicely supported by all (even if your ISP doesn’t). Please try these steps yourself. All will work. BTW: nice tutorial!

[gregspeakman]

A great and functional project. When traveling with my travel Pi-router with VPN, the Pi-NAS will be fantastic companion to the network. Maybe a some idiot lights, such as for power and storage drive being active, would make a useful addition. Well done Michael.