Question Home Network Storage over WiFi ?

[Cuzzin Chizzy]

I want to set up home network storage over WiFi and was curious on what some good options would be.

My goal is to have a large amount of storage (at least 16TB) that I can access the data on from my home PC, my phone, my laptop, etc., from anywhere in the house.

Would I want something like a RAID drive/enclosure that I plug into my router/modem?

or is there some other equipment I'd need to get a home network like that set up?

 

[USAFRet]

I want to set up home network storage over WiFi and was curious on what some good options would be.

My goal is to have a large amount of storage (at least 16TB) that I can access the data on from my home PC, my phone, my laptop, etc., from anywhere in the house.

Would I want something like a RAID drive/enclosure that I plug into my router/modem?

or is there some other equipment I'd need to get a home network like that set up?

Ideally, what you want is a 2 or 4 bay NAS device, connected directly to your router via ethernet.
QNAP or Synology.

All your house devices can access that, through the router. Be they wired or WiFi.

 

[Cuzzin Chizzy]

Ideally, what you want is a 2 or 4 bay NAS device, connected directly to your router via ethernet.
QNAP or Synology.

All your house devices can access that, through the router. Be they wired or WiFi.

Thanks for the info USAFRet !

I was also thinking about getting a raspberry pi or another pi like device to have on all the time for Home Assistant. I don't always keep my PC on all the time, so can't really use that as a "hub".

With these NAS type units, are there any that would have a basic operating system on em that you know of where I could install something like Home Assistant? Or am I best off keeping the 2 goals separate?

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks for the info USAFRet !

I was also thinking about getting a raspberry pi or another pi like device to have on all the time for Home Assistant. I don't always keep my PC on all the time, so can't really use that as a "hub".

With these NAS type units, are there any that would have a basic operating system on em that you know of where I could install something like Home Assistant? Or am I best off keeping the 2 goals separate?

Link to this "Home Assistant"?

QNAP and Synology have their own OS's, typically a Linux variant.
And come with a WIDE array of installed or available applications.

 

[Cuzzin Chizzy]

Link to this "Home Assistant"?

QNAP and Synology have their own OS's, typically a Linux variant.
And come with a WIDE array of installed or available applications.

oh that’s awesome about the QNAP and the synology having their own OS!

Here’s the home assistant.

https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux/

 

[USAFRet]

oh that’s awesome about the QNAP and the synology having their own OS!

Here’s the home assistant.

https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux/

Yeah, you could almost certainly install that. If nothing else, in a VM.