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

[darrell_17]

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?

 

[kanewolf]

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.

 

[kanewolf]

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.

 

[darrell_17]

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.