The most important decision you’ll make is how much storage you’ll need.
In simpler terms, it’s a box on to which you dump all your movies, photos, music, and other stuff so you can get to it wherever and whenever. The files themselves should be available with appropriate security measures over desired protocols. That means it should protect against system failures that cause significant downtime, and make sure no data is lost as a result of those failures. It must also offer availability and resilience for your data. So what is a NAS, anyway? A well-implemented, network-attached storage device is typically a headless device (no keyboard or monitor) providing access to large amounts of data from anywhere on your network. 2 × External USB drives (minimum), e.g.This article first appeared in The MagPi 85 and was written by PJ Evans You'll need Now, thanks to the improved throughput of Raspberry Pi 4 with USB 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet, you can build a fully featured NAS for a fraction of the cost. These file- and media-serving black boxes can punch a hole in your bank account, particularly the professional versions aimed at businesses. Getting access to those files and making sure they are protected from drive failure can be challenging without an expensive network-attached storage (NAS) solution. If you’ve got a lot of files like photos, music, or movies, chances are they are sitting on a hard drive somewhere.
