How To Build a Raspberry Pi 4 NAS! (Pi 4/3/2B)

Today, we are going to look at how you make an epic DIY Raspberry Pi NAS using OpenMediaVault, and some differences between using different Raspberry Pis.
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[@alexjohnson5677]

Great video! Just FYI, Windows now comes with SSH via command line - Putty is still great, but Powershell/CMD SSH is also an option.

[@--Tanjumul]

apt-get update your sound quality !

[@christopherbarber2377]

apt update now actually! ;)

[@NicMG]

@@christopherbarber2377 nerd burn

[@jimmym.1548]

@@christopherbarber2377 both work, don't they? Also upgrade needs to be done as well?

[@Climbingman766]

I literal had my volume turned up all the way and I couldn’t hear him

[@silentnumanuma]

You forgot to use sudo...

[@StephanLiebenberg]

Thanks! I can now say I have successfully finished my first raspberry pi project 😋 (with a salvaged 80gb hardrive from an old Windows 98 laptop 👀) I was concerned about power since it had a 700ma rating on the HDD, and I don't have a powered USB hub, but I encountered no issues. I think I will get myself a 1tb HDD and enjoy the cloud experience 😊 ☁️

[@letsgobrandon791]

Probably one of the best videos on an RP NAS I’ve seen yet

[@TopSpecMedia]

Wow! Thanks that really means a lot! -Chris

[@devaug5242]

Amazing video! Production was great and you paced through the video well allowing it to be followed easily. I plan to build out one of these using a Pi 4 before diving into building my own NAS. Thank you!

[@TopSpecMedia]

So glad you enjoyed it! -CB

[@jayrowe6473]

Good video. You could use a little more volume on your video, though.

[@RaspberryPiGirls]

Nice video. Learned a lot and finished my nas. You can increase volume in video editing app.

[@obliviousrivinity1370]

First video where I fly through the tutorial without errors in the pi, thanks

[@TopSpecMedia]

Awesome! Thanks for watching! -cb

[@yantheman1398]

Great production quality and thank you so much for the helpful content. Hope your channel gets more sub it deserves!!!

[@DoctorProfessorPablo]

For those who might run into the same issues I did: User: pi Password: raspberry

[@louiem5985]

Great video! Since I have about 5 ssd drivers sitting around. Would I be able to use a USB external device to connect all of them to one USB on the PI? I think the software you showed would be able to support all the drivers just finding how to connect them all. Plus finding a case for all the drives. Make it nice and clean.

[@6yphon]

Nice video! You deserve more views dude

[@jayoli7073]

As an Audio Engineer, I must say that your microphone placement is in the wrong place therefore you're defeating the polar pattern in support of your desired operation.

[@iceapx]

New drinking game: every time you say "obviously" Obviously we're getting hammered.

[@dcdales]

I'd been looking for a video like this for a week! Super helpful. Thanks!

[@draven4464]

I have run a NAS from a 3 B+, I don't recommend it unless in a pinch. Anything below a 4 is going to be a struggle if you want anything above USB 2.0. I personally got tired of the lag in data transfer from my Rpi b3+ and ended up buying a used R720. Sure it's an energy hog, but at less than 100w average its been a great investment with the amount of things I run on it. The Rpi B3+ was a great learning experience, but it couldn't handle the load and I found myself needing to buy more pi's to support the things I wanted to do (not cheap). Granted my R720 isn't cheap either, but I'd rather buy a new drive than another unit and drives.

[@KevinMarchese]

Good job man, clean video. loving OMV 6

[@kristopher1583]

Good video, it helped me setup a pi 2b , you're right get a pi 4 for the network connection and that's the plan, I'm just using what I got to know what I need to do when I get that pi 4.

[@xandersaliba7794]

Great video. Just one thing, raspberry has actually allowed u to connect to the pi’s ssh via terminal now to by using ssh pi@

[@joycevandergeest9862]

Sound works fine for me 👍🏼

[@QuantumBraced]

Can you encrypt your drives with this NAS setup?

[@CoolHandLuke196]

dude. my god. i've been trying to search for an easy tutorial on this for like a week. thank you! I'm pretty new to the NAS world and have a question. Is it possible to connect 2 external drives to the pi and have 1 just be a backup to the other one?

[@dexterflodstrom9975]

This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but look into RAID. It's a system where if one of the drives fail, the other one will take it's place. This prevents the NAS from crashing incase one drive fails.

You can look at Rsync to achieve that

[@youmongrel]

Can a pi be both a NAS (following your walkthrough) and a Plex server simultaneously? I have an 8TB WD powered external USB drive with my library on it, but I'm switching to a laptop-only household and still want to provide my family friends with Plex.

[@bigdamnhero2297]

How might one access this NAS outside of home network? would you also consider covering that? thanks

[@WrathOfVaz]

Thanks for the video. For a NAS does it make much difference whether you use the 2GB, 4GB or 8GB RAM Rasp Pi 4?

[@TheUnofficialMaker]

apparently he doesn't reply to questions.

[@aer0449]

Man such a good content

[@TopSpecMedia]

Glad you liked it and thanks for the support!

[@Chris173972]

The vertical line you couldn't type is 'pipe', you pass info from one to another '|' usually "shift+backslash" on your keyboard :-)

[@TopSpecMedia]

Would be shift backslash on a US keyboard but I think the RPi defaults to UK keyboard even though I had a US keyboard plugged in. Thanks!

[@luiscastro2761]

Can you use this for a multi bay enclosure with its own power

[@laytons6444]

I'm gonna be real, I've never even touched a raspberry pi, but if the enclosure connects to a computer by usb then you absolutely can.

[@katherined426]

Love this tutorial. Thank you

[@mightyakkylex]

Do I have to wipe the drive? I have a lot of stuff on it I'd like to keep to actually access on my network

[@3DChallenger]

simply explained! thx 😉

[@RobbC.]

Great video, super helpful and the best one out there. And to those saying the audio is a bit low, how difficult is it for them to hit 'volume up', geeeez there's no pleasing some people. Again, well done! :)

[@NuclearMozart]

Will this setup be accessible over an internet connection?

[@konstantinosaidinidis3504]

Awsome content. I have a rasbreey pi 4 and i was wondering if i can combo multiple projects on it such as retropi and coby, nas, web server and a pi hole at the same time. Is it possible? if so, will the pi handle the load? thank you

[@Garikork]

thx that was really helpful

[@frankslabbert6392]

Which openmedia did you use?

[@Cosmicnomadzaa]

Thanks Bud !

[@AdamBauer111]

once I installed OpenMediaVault my raspberry pi 2b goes into a boot loop, please help!!!

[@captaintanker7]

whats the final project physically look like?

[@luigi1326]

Nice videos thanks!

[@ddlonglegs]

None of those options are showing up on openmediavault

[@johnarnold6623]

The way you have set this up I was wondering. Is the NAS running within OMV? Within one of the Docker containers? Or alongside it?

[@Findanish]

I have OMV5 running as a vm in Proxmox using a USB Dock passthrough.. i think i like that setup instead of sacrificing the entire system for OMV5

[@emmanuel1997]

Is there any significant diferente between a raspberry pi 4 with 4 or 8 GB of ram for this project?

[@electricityandfire]

could you use the sd card as the storage drive?

[@hazaronur]

Is it possible to install OMV to pi zero w? is it worth it?

[@51athuH]

Hi Im getting a no url found when I try to install openmedia

[@jleuthardt]

Great video! I fucked up the first time so I had to redo it but that was my wrong, not yours. But I fixed it and we are all good now!

[@poblo826]

my ssh credentials keep saying incorrect need help please

[@villocity5794]

did anyone else get the problem; installed postfix package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 75 Errors were encountered while processing: postfix E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) failed installing postfix

[@zwyklyuser44]

Thx

[@krickenart1357]

Hi bro, very informative video but plss increase your sound.

[@TopSpecMedia]

Thanks for watching and we'll make sure to work on that!

[@bhumikthakkar4549]

Hii sir how can I start WiFi in pi4 using windows 10 pro

[@BierMeister360]

CM4 nas video?

[@jasonallnutt5049]

Could you also use this same pi to run a pihole?

[@TopSpecMedia]

Maybe with Docker!

[@bradley9856]

would I be able to access this NAS someway from a different location / IP?

[@VenixDev]

Yeah, if you have an WiFi you could do Port Forwarding.

[@bradley9856]

@@VenixDev Thought so, thanks!

[@UndeadShadowHunter]

My IP doesnt appear

[@jaydaily6751]

I was getting ready to down vote you for that Buckeye mug but then I saw your Lando background. Now I'm torn.

[@TopSpecMedia]

decisions decisions... :)

[@matthiaspeiermp]

How do i get my two SSD to become raid 1 config?

[@prathamcbh]

Could you help me with that if you got a method?

[@emmettbrown6418]

This is different because this NAS how-to actually worked.

[@draztiqmeshaz6226]

Last week I realized I've been saying sudo for years when it's actually pronounced sudo. Can you believe it? sheesh...

[@draztiqmeshaz6226]

If made one person laugh, it's been worth it.

[@NotWithinLimits]

I just want you to make more money to afford raspberry pi 4 ❤️❤️ im gonna click on ads

[@owenmarganski6731]

The network no longer works when after installing the script. I've tried it one multiple pis and os, but it happens every time. Ideas?

[@midnightwolf9105]

IDK

[@carnby24]

you damn voice is so muffled! But you got the point out

[@hiddeninja7267]

anyone else doing this in vr?

[@adamsilesia5753]

Is he wearing lipstick.

[@da1g]

Don't usually comment but sorry dude really wanna watch this vid but can't hear u

[@TopSpecMedia]

Sorry to hear that, audio levels should be good though?

[@adamsilesia5753]

I hate this.

[@51athuH]

Hi Im getting a no url found when I try to install openmedia