Build A Raspberry Pi NAS For $35 Using All New Parts
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- 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
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I've been wanting to do this for a while, but all the other tutorials were too complicated, this is perfect, thanks!
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!
This is a nice little project to put an unused Pi to use
hello fools ,just attach nvme ssd to usb 3.0 in router's usb port .Why are you trying make it complicated 😂😂😂😂 it's 2024 every router has usb port.atleast there is usb 2.0 port available.beware to format it in ext or fat format to be able to detect by router
Nas is outdated technology, nowadays router's can be used as nas system with it's usb port
@@Enteraname-tg3rgwhat if that usb drive fails, there only one usb drive, in case of nas there are buch of harddrives, so we have raid options if couple of them drives fails we still have our backup for our data. Using router as network storage isn't a bad idea but you can't store your important data there. Router network storage is good for movies and music not for some important data.
@hardikyadav5277 If you have imp data then your suggestion is a must 💯👍
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.
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)
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.
How well would exFAT do in comparison? Considering we got a flash drive in here.
I would happily use ext4 for a file system but I have a huge nas drive that I want to defragment now and again so ext4 would be impossible to do so I don't think theres a compromise.
@@revengenerd1 Ext4 also has a defragmenter e4defrag and ext4 is less affected by fragmentation.
Or FAT32
I feel like this is a great example of "just because you can, doesn't mean that you should".
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@@premprakash2297 Because he's getting a transfer speed of 5Mbps... when he could get a better speed by simply plugging that USB stick in the USB port on the router. $0 cost (except the USB stick) because it's assumed you already have a router, and 5 minutes tops to do it.
Totally agreed 😊
@@RaduRadonysmost routers still use smb1 which is extremely insecure, most would advise against just "plugging a usb drive in" and mapping it
Love it! I would add a clamp to the case to secure the cable
thank you for this. especially 7:32.
Very good project! Congrats! 👍
The case looks amazing.
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.
Well, there’s options available. You can get a NASPi Geekworm board that allows you to connect power the with 5-18V and you can connect to it two SSD/HDD drives and even with hardware RAID options. I have it myself and works perfectly
Very cool. Just what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing
i spun up a NAS today and its awesome i never used a NAS before but i can say i like it
Michael, this is such a great project! I’ve been planning to build a Pi NAS for some time but it feels daunting for a tech enthusiast still intimidated by the command line. There’s no better way to learn than to jump in and do it and the low cost maximizes the value proposition of Raspberry PI. Thank you!
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 $1500 dollars. Keep up this fascinating work. Thank you
It's interesting to think back to the first computers we had - I recall mine having to delete loads of files to be able to install Age of Empires back in the day
wow 100MB. I had a 5MB full height one and you still had to boot from a floppy disk.
my first was a timex synclare 1000. then a trs80 afterwards.. rpi's are amazing, and i use them daily along with esp32's. tech has come a long ways, and i can still hear those parents who said "Stop waisting all your time with that junk, its not going to help you survive! " little did they know, they cant survive without tech now! lol..
Have an Altair 8800 and a Osborne in my closet.. My desktop PC case is 35 years old and still has working floppy drives. 😀When the grid fails at my house in Texas, Having low power devices comes in handy when the house switches to solar batteries. But you can't do Pi's anymore for cheap.
@@dwmcever i'm also in texas, waco area, this is when you switch from pi's to esp32's. ultra cheap and uses 3.5volts and 500ma to 1amp max. best part is, you can run web servers, wireless gateways, pretty much anything with them. just get an arduino kit and start learning, well worth the effort, and if your close to waco, i'll be happy to help ya.. i got lots of them laying around.
The problem is that the original Pi Zero 2 costs now about 50$.
"Only" 50$? Where? XD
They come up on rpilocator every so often - they're currently available from Melopero (IT) for around $21
@@grimreaperoverlord6225 Where we don't use dollars as currency.
@@MichaelKlements I just use Radxa Zero. It's more powerful than Pi Zero 2 and has more memory.
What's dumb video...nobody can get a pi anymore... lol....what planet do you live on ?
I made one last year witth $25 chip(RK3328) Rock pi E with 2X ETH. Still works.
That's the cutest Nas I ever seen
This is a rad little build!
Nice info, thank you for sharing it, keep it up :)
Wow thank you so much, really helpful video!
Verry good project ! I think you can add some rgb at bottom for better look
Wonderful video and crazy idea to make it happened!!
Классное и интересное решение!
Возьму на заметку. Благодарю!
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.
Never a waste to learn, however what you just described is exactly what I was looking for, and know one whats to teach !
...still searching...
Crazy awesom §8-)
Thanks for sharing.
Very cool! Nothing better than cheap, useful, and fun to build.
it's a nice build, very nice.
Using a Pi Zero 2W, what is missing is an attached UPS.
In such a small size, portability is a key feature, and being able to use it with an UPS (it will increase the price a bit) it will be pretty good.
Taking your NAS to somewhere and multiple computers access it is cool, and with such low power you probably will be able to use it for a couple of hours.
@János Kovicz so that is just a replacement for using your mobile as a hotspot?
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.
Beware that will significantly increase the power consumption.
@@BrianKChristensen89 You can do that with the NASPi Geekworm board, which allows you to power the Pi with 5-18v of power and the board comes with two SATA SSD/HHD ports, you even have hardware RAID options. I have it myself and definitely recommend it
You can have 5Mb speed NAS, useless. Wired somehow has same speed. Trust me.
@@investinwisdom But those don't let you run more than 2 physical drives do they?
This is a fantastic tutorial. Thank you for sharing.
I think this is a perfect entry level for someone like me that wants to experiment! Great video!
Great project, Michael 👍🏻
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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.
This would be a great travel companion, you could even run it off a power bank for a couple of hours!
Pi-router with VPN? what is that?
@@garrysingh3337 Probably a router software + VPN software installed on a Pi.
This is great!!! If I may suggest a slight compromise:
Design a cheap base hardware for a NAS. Allow the user to add storage as they need it.
The initial hardware can cost a tiny bit more than the final $35 just to have the luxury of adding drives later
Those are pretty good video man keep up the good work 💪🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you!
Awesome project! Thanks so much for sharing it.
Finally something i can try out with my pi 1b, that should be sort of same performance of the zero :D
Interesting project. I think a Pi4 is the minimum I'd want to use, though. USB3 is a game changer.
Yeah I agree.
If you're willing to use a Pi 4 you may as well use a CM4, as then you'll have PCI-e.
Pi4 works pretty well. I have one with sata ssd and it's good enough that I have it 24/7 on. About 37 MB/s write speeds to it.
The SBC industry has MANY MANY devices. Most are even more suitable to serve as a NAS. Some have Ethernet ports, and some even have M2 slots. The raspberry pi succeeded in creating a great industry. Why people are addicted to shoehorning the pi (specifically) where there are better options, is beyond me.
@@abo3abid1 I fully agree. I'd suppose it was mostly about the availability of rpi's.
you should build a pi-nas that compares to the synology ds120j, its a dual core arm processor and is most likely slower then the zero
Try building one with a larger orange pi with built in WiFi and 8gb also add a SSD. I feel like it would be better benefit .but this is cool idea for 3d print farms
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?
Great project! How about adding a safe shutdown button and a stats display building on your previous stats display projects with a cycling display of available shares and capacity (perhaps even share quota space if you assigned quotas).
Hi not sure this would work but if reprinted a little bigger or turn fixing to the back may be more room for the USB drive and cables also you could put bigger storage devices it as upgrade?
really cool! Thanks for inspiration :)
Indioendend of the price, I was hoping it will fit 2x2.5" drives as the appearance suggests. It would be a cool odroid hc1 alternative wich is unfortunately outdated.
The nas looks so cute.
im going to do something similar with the Libre Board Renegade. its 40 dollars, and has usb 3.0 and ethernet. the processor is not as powerful but i only need it for nas duty
Do you trust a usb-stick for storage? I think an USB-SSD is a better solution, since the RPi zero 2 W can boot from them.
Excellent!
Those m2.5 bras inserts are a great idea.
I wonder if there is a simple and secure way to set this up to access the NAS from anywhere around the world?
You can access if from outside your network if your router supports port forwarding
Made the mistake of rebooting and couldn't figure out how to find my IP. I am using a Radxa Zero so I assumed the process would be the same so I followed your tutorial and yh not making that same mistake again. Thanks btw!
The Pi Zero 2 w has been completely sold out in the UK for months now, any suggestions on which other one would be suitable and still budget?
Great video @MichaelKlements
Thank you for sharing with the community!
One of the things I might try is a USB hub that also includes an Ethernet port. I have found WiFi to be a tad iffy on some routers. I have also found that Raspbian(Raspberry Pi OS) some times will drop WiFi connection and not auto reconnect like it should. One of the reasons I prefer Ethernet over WiFi.
Thanks David. Yeah Ethernet is the better choice and will be a more reliable connection. I was just trying to keep the cost as low as possible for this build.
There are Pi3/4 carrier boards that allow you to plug in a Pi Zero 2w and that way you get ethernet and a couple extra usb ports. not that expensive from AliExpress.
Great little project so thanks for the tutorial and 3d print files Michael 👍
How do you connect Ethernet in RPI Zero 2W? After installing OMV restart
Most access points have a USB input for a hard drive and then it can share on the network. I'd probably go with that over this setup personally
Thats what i was thinking till i discovered the Draytek 2765 router i have is useless with USB hard drives as it cannot read NTFS, only FAT32 so has a 4GB file size limitation.
Such a good video. You cover so many different things, Open Media Vault, 3D printing a case, installing Raspberry software etc.
Thats very cool! Nice Job on that Tiny NAS device
hi - after getting the cad files how do you print the case? do you have a design for pi2 b?
I built once a nas server on raspberry pi 3, it was too slow. I bought a mini pc for 80$ and it is super cool, still using it.
I had my NAS on a PI Zero for a while, but found it underpowered both electrically and CPU wise. With a Pi4 you can run 2.5" HDDs and get about 4 times the effective IO throughput.
Awesome!!!
excellent video, the low powered nas is exactly what I was looking for. I don't mind the network speeds so much.
If you buy the pi zero starter kit they come with power cable USB to micro USB in the kit kind of bulky but it has other item that are useful, for 15us its hard to beat.
wow luv it
only complaint would be adjusting the acceleration settings on cura to prevent ringing on the 3D printed walls
I have 2x raspberry pi 4b 8gb sitting around with a tower and a few SSD, I had no use yet. I want to try replicating this with one of my pi and a couple SSD. Instead of my current nas on my esxi as a vm machine. Nice guide 👍
A Pi 4 and SSD make a great little home NAS
Hi, i was wondering if i could put a usb hub on the part uou put the usb drive in so i can put like more drives?
That's one big PiNas
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!
Thanks for the suggestions Martin
Congrats Michael, outstanding Idea. Having a ultra low power, h24 server is very useful indeed, despite it's "limited" capabilities. The building quality is also beyond a DIY project. A very easy feature upgrade would be a battery power bank to preserve it from power failures. I would love to see from you a proposal for a low power, 80MBps~, over ethernet NAS. Great job, many thanks!
Just attachany usb flash drive or cheap ssd to your wifi router, most of them has nfs capability nowdays. It will take only 5 minutes of your time instead of hours to this Diy project.
@@serraxer Correct, I attached an external SSD to my USB 3 port on the router and I got around 100Mbps speed.. it took 2 minutes to create some users and enable sharing. And that was it.
Would there be any way to add a power and activity LED?
Would you be able to turn the Mini NAS into a movie streaming server?
super cool projkt👍👍
Awesome 🎉
are good stuff extra cost savings could be the first pi zero w and use the sd card for storage and no fan lol. I cant understand why its not quicker.
An interesting topic. And a possible follow-up would be to check how a conventional SSD would perform in this PiNAS core, checking price of add-up, performance R/W and power consumption.
I think with the addition of an SSD and a USB ethernet adaptor you'd get fairly good results from this setup.
@@MichaelKlements Nope. It's USB 2.0 have to be shared between USB network adapter and the drives. The speed will be about ~20Mbyte/s.
Amazing
Although the Pi Zero 2 works and is inexpensive wouldnt an overclocked Pi3 or 4 be better for this task?
Sweet! I'd want to see how to incorporate a Pi 3 (which I already have lying around) and some sort of external interface, plus scope for a proper hard drive or three. But it looks so much tinier than my humungous 8 drive Synology box!
Great project. Increased and reliable storage will be a great upgrade.
A good SSD would be the best first upgrade to this NAS for sure
I have a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W doing nothing! Good idea this would probably get a bigger drive on it - I also do have cables to interface a HDD/SSSD to it. Only thing is WAN access would be nice but I can look at that anyway. My WD Home will be out of support from June these at least will ALWAYS be in support! Up the Open Source movement!!!
Excellent video.
Very cool.
So, the SD card is supposed to be the hard drives?
very cool. I'd like to see a raid setup. I have pi3 collecting dust, which has more USB ports. So maybe I can get two SSD drives and get that going. Thanks for the video!
I'll have a look at putting together a RAID setup. Unfortunatley OMV used here doesn't support RAID across USB connected drives - this was removed a few years ago - but I should be able to find another package that allows it.
I have an issue where everything works fine then the next day without having touched any settings or files, the shared folder won't let me write any new files or folders and it says permission denied even when using administrator
Can you put hds and use raid, zfs or something on raspberry pi 4/5 via USB?
Did I missed the part how you connect hdd with the pi zero?
Good job!
Hi, nice project, thanks for sharing. To me this NAS looks more like a media storage server. Would it be possible to add more separate storage cards to it in order to backup all the files on the NAS?
If you add in a USB adaptor you can add mutiple drives to the NAS
This is awesome, can there be some software on the device itself, which can be accessed form web and give media controls ? for images, music, movies, etc
This just acts as a file server to store your files. You could use an application like Plex on your local device for images, music and movies etc.
Amazing. Can you build a mini nas server for me. 4 samsung T7 ssd (4TB).??
Can I connect two HDD, 20 Tb everyone on USB?
How do you add a couple of big hds? Nice project!
Thank you. You'd have to use the USB port, you could add a hub to connect multiple drives to it.
Tell me price of 3D printing please, Thank you ☺
What are the "handles" for? Just looks? It looks like 2 hot-swappable drives, even though they don't exist.
Great idea, next a MiniNAS with JBOD of 1TB microflash cards or 2 - 4 2.5" ssd's.
I see AliExpress has some...
I wonder if you could supercharged it and use a NVME drive...
Try looking at the Orange Pi3 it should be at the same price but offer a bit more
I would recommend you to use other similar board like banana or orange pi that are mire nas friendly
Hi, I would like to know if it does work for a light storage usage. I would like to build this to be a back-up solution for my family (just some photos).
iCould is very convenient but a bit expensive for me.
Yes this is perfect for storing small files for home use. I'd suggest using a better quality storage device (SSD or HDD) if you're going to be using it for photos or important documents.