Personal Cloud Storage

[dewetcm]

I have a few hard drives laying around at home and want to put them to use. My aim is to link them with like a raspberry pi 3 and create my own home based cloud storage to access anywhere in the world. Like my own Google Drive basically. can this be done, and if so, how and what will be needed?

 

[The Paladin]

great Idea, its been done, and tested before you … and plenty of easy how to manuals to follow from

https://eltechs.com/raspberry-pi-nas-guide/
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/raspberry-pi-as-cheap-nas-solution/
https://www.techradar.com/how-to/computing/how-to-build-your-own-raspberry-pi-nas-1315968

 

[dewetcm]

@The Paladin

Thank you this is really helpful. I might have missed the part in the notes where I can make it accessible anywhere in the world. Is it basically like port forwarding?

 

[The Paladin]

I am no RasPi expert, but from a network point of view, yes the port it uses would be shared through port forwarding I think

 

[USAFRet]

@The Paladin

Thank you this is really helpful. I might have missed the part in the notes where I can make it accessible anywhere in the world. Is it basically like port forwarding?

You need to be really, really, really careful about that accessibility.
If you can access it, maybe I can as well.

But RasPi, or windows/linux box, or dedicated NAS box(Qnap/Synology)...accessibility is mostly controlled through your router/firewall.
Yes, port forwarding.

 

[dewetcm]

@USAFRet Lol love the picture you added. Reason why I asked here if anyone has done it and how did they made it accessible world wide and patch the security gaps. I'll start by doing it with a small unimportant amount of files. Basically I want to turn my home NAS into a "Google Drive" if that makes sense.

 

[The Paladin]

one thinks that it comes with a user and password requirements like my WD drive does it.

 

[owenwong0929]

我对这个话题很感兴趣。作者制作过Raspberry Pi NAS吗？

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I'm interested in this topic. Has the author made a Raspberry Pi NAS?