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FreeNAS, a supermicro motherboard, ECC memory, an i3 if it’s just a pure NAS or a Xeon if you need more power. I have the above setup with 6 WD Red drives in a
by wil421 7y ago
FreeNAS, a supermicro motherboard, ECC memory, an i3 if it’s just a pure NAS or a Xeon if you need more power. I have the above setup with 6 WD Red drives in a NFS pool.
It’s hard to justify using a Pi for a NAS unless you don’t mind your SD becoming corrupted.
Are you looking to build a real NAS or a Pi NAS? You could by off the shelf but it’s not as much fun.
- threatofrain 7y agoA real NAS but I see the Pi isn’t up to it yet; too bad.
- wil421 7y agoI’ve been using FreeNAS for about a year. The community has the angry sysadmin mentality and they favor retired sever hardware but it’s not hostile or anything. The docs are decent and setup isn’t too hard. Make sure your rig can boot FreeBSD. OpenMediaVault is another Debian based distro I might check out in the future. Hardware wise I’d go with something that supports ECC and a sever grade mobo, likely intel based. Supermicro has some cool IPMI features I used to setup over LAN, no monitor or keyboard. Just a reminder to not open up your NAS to the public. I VPN to my home network if I need remote access.
- nicolaslem 7y ago+1 for FreeNAS. I recently converted my Mac mini 2012 into a FreeNAS box, I just replaced the SSD with two 2.5" HDD. No ECC but also way cheaper than the alternative I had in mind.
- pnutjam 7y agoSsh/sftp can be open.