Build A Raspberry Pi NAS For $35 Using All New Parts

[@mxs9994]

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that he literally engraved "Pi NAS" into the side of the housing but still chose "mininas" as the hostname?

[@j0hnnykarat3games]

He could have done nasberrypi

[@corbindixon5519]

😂 didn't fully think it through....or did he?

[@theabyss5647]

The problem is that the original Pi Zero 2 costs now about 50$.

[@grimreaperoverlord6225]

"Only" 50$? Where? XD

[@MichaelKlements]

They come up on rpilocator every so often - they're currently available from Melopero (IT) for around $21

[@theabyss5647]

@@grimreaperoverlord6225 Where we don't use dollars as currency.

[@theabyss5647]

@@MichaelKlements I just use Radxa Zero. It's more powerful than Pi Zero 2 and has more memory.

[@Woodwerker]

What's dumb video...nobody can get a pi anymore... lol....what planet do you live on ?

[@lwwells]

PINAS might not be the best name to use.

[@johnathanrice3569]

One of the smallest PINAS ive ever seen

[@lwwells]

@@johnathanrice3569 Yea. That’s a micro PINAS if I’ve ever seen one…. not that I’ve ever seen one……. :|

[@joshpayne4015]

I feel like this is a great example of "just because you can, doesn't mean that you should".

[@user99i]

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[@premprakash2297]

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[@RaduRadonys]

@@premprakash2297 Because he's getting a transfer speed of 5Mbps... when he could get a better speed by simply plugging that USB stick in the USB port on the router. $0 cost (except the USB stick) because it's assumed you already have a router, and 5 minutes tops to do it.

[@Woodwerker]

Totally agreed 😊

[@norndev]

​@@RaduRadonysmost routers still use smb1 which is extremely insecure, most would advise against just "plugging a usb drive in" and mapping it

[@SimonLeslieTan]

How can anyone build this with $35 when you already charge AUD$8 for the 3D file? Like all your videos, every files included shown comeswith a price tag which most other KZbinrs gives away freely.

[@coreoocoreoo1059]

I have an odroid xu4 with two 3TB drives and one 500GB sata SSD running Open Media Vault with docker. It's perfect for gigabit LAN, goes max when copying files. Running Plex in docker. Can easily transcode 1080p. 3TB drives are mirrored, 500GB SSD is for docker containers, music and photos for plex for faster acces and not needing to spin up hard drives everytime I listen to music from plex.

[@dc37009]

Never a waste to learn, however what you just described is exactly what I was looking for, and know one whats to teach ! ...still searching...

[@rhiantaylor3446]

I have built much the same and my experience was that it is essential to use a quad core Pi so Pi 2/3/4 or indeed the Pi Z 2 W as described. The second point is that you should ideally format your storage in ext4 or similar - if you use NTFS for example you will use half your CPU cycles with the NTFS conversion layer. Many USB external storage devices will come initially formatted NTFS.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

How well would exFAT do in comparison? Considering we got a flash drive in here.

[@revengenerd1]

I would happily use ext4 for a file system but I have a huge nas drive that I want to defragment now and again so ext4 would be impossible to do so I don't think theres a compromise.

[@ІгорАлієв]

@@revengenerd1 Ext4 also has a defragmenter e4defrag and ext4 is less affected by fragmentation.

[@etmax1]

Or FAT32

[@MrRidged]

hmm upgrades dump the pi as pi's are not very good maybe try one of the faster sbc and not that expensive like the le potato or a nano pi with a better chip ether of these board as both have a ethernet port which will make storage much faster i would like to see the nano pi m4 with the sata hat which adds 4 sata ports which can be powered via a pico psu or a 12v barrel jack.

[@ninline2000]

Interesting project. I think a Pi4 is the minimum I'd want to use, though. USB3 is a game changer.

[@shemmac4700]

Yeah I agree.

[@blahdelablah]

If you're willing to use a Pi 4 you may as well use a CM4, as then you'll have PCI-e.

[@jothain]

Pi4 works pretty well. I have one with sata ssd and it's good enough that I have it 24/7 on. About 37 MB/s write speeds to it.

[@abo3abid1]

The SBC industry has MANY MANY devices. Most are even more suitable to serve as a NAS. Some have Ethernet ports, and some even have M2 slots. The raspberry pi succeeded in creating a great industry. Why people are addicted to shoehorning the pi (specifically) where there are better options, is beyond me.

[@jothain]

@@abo3abid1 I fully agree. I'd suppose it was mostly about the availability of rpi's.

[@WalterDeans]

This is awesome. I already have a DIY NAS using a mini PC, but I also have a Pi Zero unused after moving my ad blocker to my NAS. I think this would work great as an emergency backup, potentially offsite (at a friends house or family member), and have it sync once a day. Thank you for this, I'm looking forward to more projects like this one!

[@MichaelKlements]

This is a nice little project to put an unused Pi to use

[@Enteraname-tg3rg]

hello fools ,just attach nvme ssd to usb 3.0 in router's usb port .Why are you trying make it complicated 😂😂😂😂 it's 2024 every router has usb port.atleast there is usb 2.0 port available.beware to format it in ext or fat format to be able to detect by router

[@Enteraname-tg3rg]

Nas is outdated technology, nowadays router's can be used as nas system with it's usb port

[@hardikyadav5277]

​@@Enteraname-tg3rgwhat if that usb drive fails, there only one usb drive, in case of nas there are buch of harddrives, so we have raid options if couple of them drives fails we still have our backup for our data. Using router as network storage isn't a bad idea but you can't store your important data there. Router network storage is good for movies and music not for some important data.

[@Enteraname-tg3rg]

@hardikyadav5277 If you have imp data then your suggestion is a must 💯👍

[@Fred2-123]

I am soooo glad I bought 4 PI Zero 2W's a few years ago when Microcenter had them for $3.14 on Pi Day (March 14)

[@aravjain]

WHAT 😮 I WISH I GOT THAT OFFER AND I COULD EASILY AFFORD LIKE 10

[@realcartoongirl]

ah yes, just buy a 3d printer

[@mahtin]

Two comments to improve things. 1) You set the hostname when you flashed the micro SD card. That’s the hostname you should use for your ssh command. No need to hunt down the IP address. It’s broadcast to all your hosts via MDNS. You should never need to use the IP address in any step in the process (did you see “mininas” show up on your windows file browser? 2) Did you really disable IPv6? Why? It’s fully usable out-of-the-box by nearly every device on your local wifi network. Plus, if point 1 above is used, then you’ll use v4 or v6 as-needed. It’s 2023, and v6 is nicely supported by all (even if your ISP doesn’t). Please try these steps yourself. All will work. BTW: nice tutorial!

[@MichaelKlements]

Thanks for the suggestions Martin

[@WilsonBradleyTheOfficial]

I use to watch Raspberry PIE DIY videos.. However a big missing part, no one can get these.. Just surprised PiE videos are still coming.. We need DIY vids with PiE alternatives

[@qt31415]

true. its like these PIs aint being churned out as we need em.

[@RamonInNZ]

@@qt31415 stock shortages expected to get better mid-year 2023.

[@dominick253]

Most access points have a USB input for a hard drive and then it can share on the network. I'd probably go with that over this setup personally

[@kenzohkw]

Thats what i was thinking till i discovered the Draytek 2765 router i have is useless with USB hard drives as it cannot read NTFS, only FAT32 so has a 4GB file size limitation.

[@kennethrowe8129]

Been running a very similar setup for several years. Using Open Media Vault with a pi 3 / wired Ethernet / external 128 gb SSD. My transfer speeds 10-12 MB/s down, 6-8 MB/s up.

[@mtzmanny81]

hows the 4k?

[@DMANOG]

That's one big PiNas

[@azoresmarine]

Fascinating . My first university course was 1977, my first computer was 1987 (a 285) I think) My first hard drive was 100 mega bites and $1500 dollars. Keep up this fascinating work. Thank you

[@MichaelKlements]

It's interesting to think back to the first computers we had - I recall mine having to delete loads of files to be able to install Age of Empires back in the day

[@leglessinoz]

wow 100MB. I had a 5MB full height one and you still had to boot from a floppy disk.

[@danratsnapnames]

my first was a timex synclare 1000. then a trs80 afterwards.. rpi's are amazing, and i use them daily along with esp32's. tech has come a long ways, and i can still hear those parents who said "Stop waisting all your time with that junk, its not going to help you survive! " little did they know, they cant survive without tech now! lol..

[@dwmcever]

Have an Altair 8800 and a Osborne in my closet.. My desktop PC case is 35 years old and still has working floppy drives. 😀When the grid fails at my house in Texas, Having low power devices comes in handy when the house switches to solar batteries. But you can't do Pi's anymore for cheap.

[@danratsnapnames]

@@dwmcever i'm also in texas, waco area, this is when you switch from pi's to esp32's. ultra cheap and uses 3.5volts and 500ma to 1amp max. best part is, you can run web servers, wireless gateways, pretty much anything with them. just get an arduino kit and start learning, well worth the effort, and if your close to waco, i'll be happy to help ya.. i got lots of them laying around.

[@null7581]

I'd love to see it upgraded to hold multiple mechanical hard drives. Picture a slot system where they could connect reusing old hard drives as short term storage for temp files.

[@BrianKChristensen89]

Beware that will significantly increase the power consumption.

[@investinwisdom]

@@BrianKChristensen89 You can do that with the NASPi Geekworm board, which allows you to power the Pi with 5-18v of power and the board comes with two SATA SSD/HHD ports, you even have hardware RAID options. I have it myself and definitely recommend it

[@kbaeksu]

You can have 5Mb speed NAS, useless. Wired somehow has same speed. Trust me.

[@jameshisself9324]

@@investinwisdom But those don't let you run more than 2 physical drives do they?

[@BadKarma714]

Can you do this using a Mac?

[@dominick253]

WiFi for a Nas? IDK I do everything I can to have everything possible on Ethernet. A Nas can be put anywhere especially one that small.

[@tinycnyc]

raspberry pinas🤓 thats what i saw when i read the title

[@kenrock2]

That's the cutest Nas I ever seen

[@Bossman207-g7x]

very cool. I'd like to see a raid setup. I have pi3 collecting dust, which has more USB ports. So maybe I can get two SSD drives and get that going. Thanks for the video!

[@MichaelKlements]

I'll have a look at putting together a RAID setup. Unfortunatley OMV used here doesn't support RAID across USB connected drives - this was removed a few years ago - but I should be able to find another package that allows it.

[@PPV0077]

Made the mistake of rebooting and couldn't figure out how to find my IP. I am using a Radxa Zero so I assumed the process would be the same so I followed your tutorial and yh not making that same mistake again. Thanks btw!

[@thomastang2587]

3d printer costs less than $35, wow.

[@NOFx420x]

Try building one with a larger orange pi with built in WiFi and 8gb also add a SSD. I feel like it would be better benefit .but this is cool idea for 3d print farms

[@rhiantaylor3446]

I bought a WD 160GB NAS back in 2006 and I still use it a lot, though I also have Terabytes of other network attached drives. My point is that a small always-on NAS using near-zero power can be a useful tool or scratchpad to have around the house but anything built on a RPI will soon show its shortcomings if you try to expand it into something more.

[@investinwisdom]

Well, there’s options available. You can get a NASPi Geekworm board that allows you to connect power the with 5-18V and you can connect to it two SSD/HDD drives and even with hardware RAID options. I have it myself and works perfectly

[@DanielBrotherston]

Just FYI...today the OMV install script deletes your network settings as part of it's cleanup tasks, meaning that you'll still lose your network config if you run it...

[@TheBlackFoxMaster]

Смысл в жестких дисках 3,5 в 2023 году? 2,5 стоят не так дорого, а ssd стоят столько же по сути. Можно свободно взять терабайт за 50$.

[@thekks.2939]

My router with openWRT and usb3 offers 120MByte/s and no additional hardware or work is needed. Sorry but the RPI is for sure not made for fast data transfers.

[@salan3]

Nice project. Trouble is for those of us without 3D printers Cases are the problem. Do you have the files for printing the case? In UK and firms seem rather expensive to get cases printed.

[@haydenc2742]

Yes, files please!

[@MichaelKlements]

The files are linked in the video description. There are often promotions on older Ender 3 models for $100 to $150. If you enjoy these sorts of projects then it's well worth it to get yourself a 3D printer.

[@jbuchana]

@@MichaelKlements Definitely worth it, and a lot of fun too!

[@onirrapdivad]

Find your local hacker space and use theirs!

[@delqyrus2619]

I tried doing basically the same a while ago. And i learned: It might be cheap, but the speed is horrible. In my case the bottleneck was the USB controller. Network ono the RPi2 is basically a usb network device, so it shares it's bandwith with the disk, while it can't simultanously read from network and write to disk. It gets even worse if you have bad software that simultanously tries to read from the device. So i doubled the price and got a cheap mini-pc with a proper ssd and i get a full gb/s with a power consumption of about 5 watts.

[@azatecas]

im going to do something similar with the Libre Board Renegade. its 40 dollars, and has usb 3.0 and ethernet. the processor is not as powerful but i only need it for nas duty

[@teajays681]

I just wanted to say thanks for making this video... I had some parts laying around and made one with an external HDD, with some problems because I didn't follow the instructions 100% the same but i got her done and I'm proud of my new media storage I am using wired and am in the 15-20mb range for transfer speeds so if one has a usb to ethernet adapter it doesn't hurt to leave attached (almost a must). I also had some problems like it would reset itself after updating but other than that no problem

[@MichaelKlements]

That's great to hear!

[@GillanMusicArt]

Excellent video, very creative, neat design of the housing and A NAS at an affordable price.

[@johnathanrice3569]

That’s a pretty small Pinas you got there

[@D4kygle]

Verry good project ! I think you can add some rgb at bottom for better look

[@jsonslim]

But what are benefits of OMV? Can't you just share the drive by native Raspbian tools ?

[@erny1601]

Indioendend of the price, I was hoping it will fit 2x2.5" drives as the appearance suggests. It would be a cool odroid hc1 alternative wich is unfortunately outdated.

[@guruvelsarveshwar2020]

How do you connect Ethernet in RPI Zero 2W? After installing OMV restart

[@enzolorenzo2589]

As a cheap Time Capsule (Time Machine), but then with a 2.5 HDD.

[@frroossst4267]

I've been wanting to do this for a while, but all the other tutorials were too complicated, this is perfect, thanks!

[@vantamg7918]

Awesome work Friend. Could you create a Pi5 Nas. I am looking to create something very powerful ( as much as one can get with a Pi5). Thank you.

[@MichaelKlements]

The PCIe port on the Pi 5 should allow for a powerful NAS build, I'll look into this for a future project.

[@deaddeadcool4270]

$35 + the cost of a 3D printer (not everyone has one.)

[@vsasab607]

I made one last year witth $25 chip(RK3328) Rock pi E with 2X ETH. Still works.

[@LeandroSorinhach]

host name: mininas Brazilians viewers: "girls"?? LOL

[@johnmichaels4330]

This thing would be so slow. Is it really useful? Cool, but useful?

[@jasc4364]

I have 20TB by now, it’s still not enough.

[@JeyLadooche]

If you buy the pi zero starter kit they come with power cable USB to micro USB in the kit kind of bulky but it has other item that are useful, for 15us its hard to beat.

[@paulgupta4827]

That moment then you realize you spent more on your screwdriver and soldering iron than your NAS. Nice video though! I've done a lot of USB flash drive based NAS. They work great when you truly don't care about performance!

[@DuroLabs85]

can it be accessed with a mobile phone on the same network ??

[@technohippy29uk]

Nice, but I think the are a couple of things that prevent me from doing this: - The case looks like a NAS you can install drives into but it's basically fake. You could make it much smaller or actually allow attachment of drives - The P-Zero 2W is not a fast device and you can't add SATA or ethernet, or at least only at USB-2 speeds. It would be better to go for an SBC that supports USB3 or PCI. Yes it'll be more expensive but you'll get something you can actually expand and use - That said your tutorial on seeing up a headless NAS is very useful, thanks 😀

[@coolinmac]

What a pointless comment

[@rememberthis3592]

it's a nice build, very nice. Using a Pi Zero 2W, what is missing is an attached UPS. In such a small size, portability is a key feature, and being able to use it with an UPS (it will increase the price a bit) it will be pretty good. Taking your NAS to somewhere and multiple computers access it is cool, and with such low power you probably will be able to use it for a couple of hours.

[@garrysingh3337]

@János Kovicz so that is just a replacement for using your mobile as a hotspot?

[@Bogomil76]

You dont need Putty on Windows, because (newer) Windows itself has a ssh client builtin.

[@MichaelKlements]

Thanks for the tip!

[@Rayu25Demon]

I still find windows server is the best option for a NAS because lunix is bad with NTFS

[@mrmotofy]

So don't use NTFS. There's obvious reasons all the largest cloud platforms and storage services don't use windows and use Linux instead.

[@tristin5723]

I once made a PiNES. Could you put a PiNES on a PiNAS for network play?

[@MichaelKlements]

I'm not aware of any NES platform that is playable over a network but you could use the NAS to store the NES games to access from a NES emulator on the network.

[@TIOLIOfficial]

So, the SD card is supposed to be the hard drives?

[@MiaogisTeas]

Thanks for showing us your PiNAS. It's a very fine PiNAS indeed. Do you leave your PiNAS out all the time? If I had a PiNAS like that I'd show it to everyone - I'd even let them hold it if they ask nicely!

[@SkysTrains]

you should build a pi-nas that compares to the synology ds120j, its a dual core arm processor and is most likely slower then the zero

[@Joeyw-2203]

I had my NAS on a PI Zero for a while, but found it underpowered both electrically and CPU wise. With a Pi4 you can run 2.5" HDDs and get about 4 times the effective IO throughput.

[@gregspeakman9337]

A great and functional project. When traveling with my travel Pi-router with VPN, the Pi-NAS will be fantastic companion to the network. Maybe a some idiot lights, such as for power and storage drive being active, would make a useful addition. Well done Michael.

[@MichaelKlements]

This would be a great travel companion, you could even run it off a power bank for a couple of hours!

[@garrysingh3337]

Pi-router with VPN? what is that?

[@RaduRadonys]

​@@garrysingh3337 Probably a router software + VPN software installed on a Pi.

[@khatharrmalkavian3306]

With SSDs becoming more affordable these days, there's no reason you can't get a nice big Pi NAS for yourself!

[@abulka]

Was expecting two drives doing raid.

[@goodwinml]

Great idea, next a MiniNAS with JBOD of 1TB microflash cards or 2 - 4 2.5" ssd's.

[@dvalilis]

Keep in mind that you should not be using USB drives for data storage on a NAS. very limited writes opposed to a sata device. it is bound to die soon enough if you actually use the nas to share stuff on users.. Other than that nice setup and even nicer case!

[@wintercoder6687]

About $800 later, I finally have all of the tools needed to build a $35 NAS drive.

[@BobDoe_69]

such bs, the pi alone will cost like 300 bucks and your first born

[@JohnPMiller]

I traded my second born, but I think I got a good deal.😉

[@GoldSrc_]

DO NOT use software video stabilization, and if youtube tells you that your video is too "shaky", tell it to kick rocks and don't touch it. I hate crappy software video stabilization, it doesn't help, and it just makes the footage look like jello. It's one of the few things that I truly hate about video production when I see it, respect the footage.

[@yoyofargo]

You know exactly what's gonna get stored on that pinas. That's right. The homework folder.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

With going the microSD on USB route I could also just throw a thumbdrive on my router. That has a USB slot for that stuff. And much cheaper than buying a Pi and renting a 3D printer.

[@Kryptstar_mack]

hmm, that is going to be super slow transfer speed, micro usb bottleneck. can only use for pics and documents, video's won't work very well.

[@thekanemonster]

Is there a way to use 2 Pi Zero Ws in a RAID configuration?

[@MichaelKlements]

OMV doesn’t support USB connected drives for RAID but other NAS packages do. You don’t need to use multiple Pi Zeros, just connect multiple drives to a single one

[@soon3794]

only complaint would be adjusting the acceleration settings on cura to prevent ringing on the 3D printed walls

[@loucinci3922]

Very cool. Just what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing

[@derklempner]

So a NAS with 128GB of USB THUMB DRIVE storage and using wifi to connect to a LAN? Seems useless.

[@Varangian_af_Scaniae]

1W sounds great for us Europeans. With the current price of kWh, I need a cheep NAS. I have 4 4GB HDDs. Might have to look at your other videos, I can spend a bit more than €35 on the hardware, need better speeds. But other than the speed and SATA interface, this is what I'm after.

[@woldemunster9244]

Check Jeff Geerling or explaining computers, they understand why those transfer speeds are low.

[@MichaelKlements]

You can build a reasonably low power NAS using a Pi CM4 module, that way you can add a reasonably high speed ethernet adaptor and SATA interfaces for the drives.

[@woldemunster9244]

@@MichaelKlements No, you can not use Pi CM4 when only available harware is Pi 3b for 150€

[@peterxyz3541]

This is great!!! If I may suggest a slight compromise: Design a cheap base hardware for a NAS. Allow the user to add storage as they need it. The initial hardware can cost a tiny bit more than the final $35 just to have the luxury of adding drives later

[@bjornironside4674]

thank you for this. especially 7:32.

[@WireHedd]

Your bottleneck slowing the file speed is in most likelyhood the USB drive you are using. Thumb drives like that are notoriously slow. You would have been better served by a larger capacity SD card and stayed with a single drive version. I tried a similar experiment with a dozen 256GB USB thumb drives all plugged into a powered USB hub with all the drives mapped and using some creative VM work they all acted as a JBOD NAS but it was a lot slower than it should have been and the slowdown was the poorer quality of the memory in the actual USB drives. Upgraded that with USB 3.2 drives and WHOA it's a small 3TB NAS that fits in an area about the size of your PiNAS. Obviously i needs a separate PC but yours has given me a few ideas. Great video thanks. NITE: I also take a drive out when I leave the house for security.

[@wakeupuk3860]

Now that did make me laugh out loud, after you spoke that original NAS enclosures had been very expensive and you wanted to have something much cheaper, i.e. $35 and began quoting really low prices. I have an IT and Networking background since 1982 but know very little or used Raspberry Pi, so I thought I would watch this. AND THEN without any irony or acceptance of what you were promoting, you showed you had a very expensive 3-D printer to create your NAS enclosure. LOL.. Oh yes, we all just happen to have one of those lying around !!

[@jkvideo786]

Amazing. Can you build a mini nas server for me. 4 samsung T7 ssd (4TB).??

[@T0nyGTSt]

nice... besides the funny name there's a few unknowns here... firstly, is this N150 2.4 wifi? this isnt too quick... 2ndly we do not know what real world speed that USB stick has... but... 3rdly.. is the micro usb interface on the PI only USB 2.0? well that taps out at a theoretical 480 mbps... I think the 2nd part of this video should be about how you add 2 x sata interfaces on this... 2 x 2tb sata ssds isnt cheap but its ok size for a small nas... and maybe how you add GbE? I dont think a wifi nas makes much sense unless you do stuff like have to nas upload to AP1 while your client uses AP2... with everyone on the same AP you get contention issues.... if you MUST use wifi then you probably need to move to 5ghz and something modern like AC2400+

[@username9774]

Sorry but a wifi nas is stupid

[@thekks.2939]

I don't see any way to upgrade this to multiple hard drives. Simply the controller for this is missing and can not be added thru RPI pins. The USB 2.0 is for sure way to slow for a good speed and have to be shared between the network adapter and the hard drives. So in fact this setup will offer a maximum speed of 480MBit/s / 2 = 240MBit/s or 30Mbyte/s which would be in reality ~20Mbyte/s. This is not worth it and a really bad solution.

[@waddahrasengan3414]

Raspberry Pi's are now more expensive than Apple products

[@SpiderAikido]

Well, using ZERO without utilization of GPIO and option to add HDD's is actually useless, this "NAS" is based only on USB extension drive. The printed case has a handles for drives extraction, but no actual drive behind them? Useless.

[@metamud8686]

Your bottleneck is the sustained write speed to the disk. A quick burst at the start as RAM buffers fill up, then ultimately (as RAM runs out) it's waiting and waiting and waiting until it all gets flushed to the disk. Also: a NAS running only on Wifi? Hrm... 🤔oh well .. a matter of taste I guess. But servers "only available through Wifi" ... meh

[@jacquesredmond]

I would love to see you do a Pi 2 W Raid NAS with Ethernet, probaby with Raid 1. Many people don't need speed, they want a large file VAULT with reliability and assurance their data is secure if one of the drives fail. :)

[@ilovefunnyamv2nd]

the cost of the pi is one thing, but I'm kinda triggered by the case design, teasing us that it's a 2x 2.5in bay NAS when reality is microusb thumb drive. Question though: Any issue with the drive being hot? I had something similar years ago, and it heated up (uncomfortable to touch) anytime it was transferring files.

[@David_Ladd]

Great video @MichaelKlements Thank you for sharing with the community! One of the things I might try is a USB hub that also includes an Ethernet port. I have found WiFi to be a tad iffy on some routers. I have also found that Raspbian(Raspberry Pi OS) some times will drop WiFi connection and not auto reconnect like it should. One of the reasons I prefer Ethernet over WiFi.

[@MichaelKlements]

Thanks David. Yeah Ethernet is the better choice and will be a more reliable connection. I was just trying to keep the cost as low as possible for this build.

[@Razor_Burn]

There are Pi3/4 carrier boards that allow you to plug in a Pi Zero 2w and that way you get ethernet and a couple extra usb ports. not that expensive from AliExpress. Great little project so thanks for the tutorial and 3d print files Michael 👍

[@JohnPMiller]

Skip the flash drive. It's slow anyway, so just buy a 128GB micro SD for $10 or a 256GB micro SD for $20 at Micro Center (for U.S. viewers).

[@michaelreed9048]

Definitely disappointed the storage was just a usb flash with 128GB and the drive bays are purely cosmetic. Otherwise, yeah, not bad for a cheap, low volume NAS, I guess.

[@thebunsenburner]

How did you get a 3d printer and still come under $35? Huehuehuehue

[@Woodwerker]

I know what's a joke...you need a $300 printer to make a $35 nas which is also BS.

[@thebunsenburner]

@@Woodwerker in fairness, I believe the container isn't technically needed to make this work, right?

[@hazaqames477]

First upgrade--RAID1 !!

[@PrimalDashes]

Yea, making this video is disingenuous. You said in your own comments "they pop up sometimes on rpilocator" and "they're around $21"..so you're already aware that you're giving misleading information on this build because it's not as easy as "just get an rpi zero" and the price you mention is incorrect as well and you also are fully aware of that too. If you're going to release a video like this, at least be fully transparent and say in the video that the actual price is likely going to be significantly higher or that they'll have to wait until a reasonably priced one appears on rpilocator and they'll need to be watching that site regularly.

[@avibhagan]

I honestly only want a NAS with raid 1. I need some redundancy. If I get a two 2 TB USB flash drives , and stick them into a raspberry pi or mini PC that might work out well.

[@dhmack]

After completing the install of OMV, when I try to access it with a browser and IP address, nothing happens. (But I can still access with Terminal.) Any suggestions?

[@duby149]

This is suck a waste of time, take the 35$ buy a better usb drive and just plug that into the back of your router and you're done. This videos would have been far more entertaining if it was aim at building the smallest Nas possible, then I would think well yeah This is technically a Nas lol 😅.

[@ToniCorvera]

How is this video coming out in February 2023 and talking like the board can actually be found for the official $15? Let alone the fact it is out of stock pretty much everywhere