Build Your Home-NAS with OpenMediaVault and Raspberry Pi-4
Unlocking the Power of Raspberry Pi with OpenMediaVault: A Comprehensive Guide
The term “NAS”, short for Network Attached Storage, stands as a pivotal solution to solve/handle the issues/challenges of data management and accessibility. This will allow you to save files from your computer and mobile devices to the external hard drives via your home network.
In this article, I will share how I built my own NAS system using a Raspberry Pi, an old hard drive, and open-source software. And of course some of the issues I had and the mistakes I made so that you avoid them.
Supplies
- Raspberry Pi (I am using Raspberry Pi 4 8GB) → The faster your Raspberry Pi, the faster your data will be saved to your external storage.
- suitable Raspberry Pi power supply (see the power supply documentation for details)
- microSD card (see the SD card documentation for details)
- adapter to connect your microSD card to your main computer
- Ethernet cable
- External USB storage (1 or more up to you) I used an old hard disk drive (HDD). It is recommended to clear your drive of data, as you may need to format it (in EXT4).
