my new file server/NAS

[alexpmcmurphy]

Ij ust got finished putting this together,

1 raspberry pi
(4) 1 TB hard drives
usb wif adapter
powered usb hub

its gonna be serving up movies and music and misc. to all the computers in the house through a samba shared virtual raid 5 drive.

 

[Mark_88]

Sounds like a good home system...but I must admit I had to look up samba shared VR5...been a while since I even thought about computer geek stuff and I'm getting rustier than my Ranger at it...lol

 

[alexpmcmurphy]

i had to look them up too, its the first time ive attempted a raid and samba server, but its a well documented process on the web

 

[Lintz]

How are you powering them up and I guess you used at least $ gigs of memory.

 

[alexpmcmurphy]

the pi is usb powered just like cell phone and the hard drives are powered by the usb hub so everything plugs into two power outlets, it doesnt have a monitor keyboard or mouse, i just remote in with ssh to throw commands at the command line interface.