[SOLVED] Making my Raspberry pi 3B into a NAS

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Hello, i am currently trying to turn my raspberry pi into a NAS server, is it possible? And can i make it so that if i use 2 drives, both drives can mirror each other so that one died, my files are still safe? Oh, and can i also make it so that it can be accessed as a cloud server?
 
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Hello, i am currently trying to turn my raspberry pi into a NAS server, is it possible? And can i make it so that if i use 2 drives, both drives can mirror each other so that one died, my files are still safe? Oh, and can i also make it so that it can be accessed as a cloud server?
Could you do that? Yes. Should you do that? IMO, no. The PI 3B had bad networking and would support only USB drives easily.
Spend the money on a real NAS box like this -- https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DiskStation-DS220j-Diskless-2-bay/dp/B0855LMP81
To do a software RAID with your PI you will have to reformat your disks. If you have to do that anyway, you should get a platform that can provide the bandwidth and has the tools for...
Hello, i am currently trying to turn my raspberry pi into a NAS server, is it possible? And can i make it so that if i use 2 drives, both drives can mirror each other so that one died, my files are still safe? Oh, and can i also make it so that it can be accessed as a cloud server?
Could you do that? Yes. Should you do that? IMO, no. The PI 3B had bad networking and would support only USB drives easily.
Spend the money on a real NAS box like this -- https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DiskStation-DS220j-Diskless-2-bay/dp/B0855LMP81
To do a software RAID with your PI you will have to reformat your disks. If you have to do that anyway, you should get a platform that can provide the bandwidth and has the tools for remote access already built-in and configured.
 
Solution
Could you do that? Yes. Should you do that? IMO, no. The PI 3B had bad networking and would support only USB drives easily.
Spend the money on a real NAS box like this -- https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DiskStation-DS220j-Diskless-2-bay/dp/B0855LMP81
To do a software RAID with your PI you will have to reformat your disks. If you have to do that anyway, you should get a platform that can provide the bandwidth and has the tools for remote access already built-in and configured.
Ah, ok thx for your answer.