RaspPi as Network Access Storage

I want to buy a Raspberry Pi and use it as NAS or setup OwnCloud or something
My questions are:
> Is the Zero W any good for this kind of stuff?
> Is anyone here experienced with this? What could be the issues I'd run into?
> Should I get a clone thing instead? What are the problems encountered with clones?
danke

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Why not just get a WD or Synology NAS that has a VPN client and web access built in?

these are overpriced, bulky, generate heat and consume way too much electricity (=money)
i don't mind the slight performance drop. also, no choice over os, no way to get updates (afaik), so i'm possibly fucked with a compromised closed source os

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>I want to buy a Raspberry Pi and use it as NAS
No, you really don't.

>100 megabit
It's shit

For which pourpose may I ask? Regular use or just for the satisfaction of doing something crafty?

Regular use
Isn't there a way to bypass the 100mbit limit?

Nope

A spare laptop running debian will run so much better

Choose a filesystem that prevents bitrot.

buy a used Dlink dns-323 NAS from ebay. same price as a PI with linux firmware. I sold a couple of them when my boss tossed them in the trash.

Well, either way, I just want the Pi because it's cheap and small
All I'm asking is is there a better raspi-sized board out there?
I care for size, too

Tons

What are your thoughts about the Banana Pi?

build a pc and run freenas

>All I'm asking is is there a better raspi-sized board out there?
yes many
look for banana pi for example
i think it has a gigabit Ethernet and even wifi

tried RPi 1 and it was shit, got 5MB/s max

bought a BananaPi with SATA and GbE, and I get 50MB/s over NFS easy.

for a cheap nas, I'd be looking into something like a used HP Microserver - in the long run it would probably serve you better.

nothing wrong with pis tho, just running as a NAS isnt their strongest usecase

Get the odroid-c2

Thanks. I think I'm gonna go for the Banana Pi
There are different variations, though? Which one has the best cost/performance ratio?

>Which one has the best cost/performance ratio?
It's a single board computer. It's going to perform like shit no matter what you buy. The only saving grace of the Banana Pi is that they didn't stick the SATA port on the same controller as its ethernet.

you want a banana pi for that
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I'm thinking about getting a Pi W to use as a dedicated Unifi controller/PiHole server. Too bad there's not really a cheap/compact PoE solution for the Pi.

I use an Odroid XU4 for my NAS because it has 1Gbit Ethernet and USB 3.0 to get better speeds than on an RPI.

>Isn't there a way to bypass the 100mbit limit?
What? No. It doesn't have a Gigabit Ethernet adapter. End of story.

Really? Never heard of a USB gigabit ethernet adapter?

Sup Forums really makes me wonder sometimes.

You're not getting Gb anything over a 480Mbps bus that both the HDD and NIC share.

You're not going to get close to that on a USB external HDD either. You can still get over 100Mbit performance though.

>gigabit usb adapter
>usb 2.0

>Isn't there a way to bypass the 100mbit limit?
>moving the goalpost

480Mbit is the theoretical max for USB2.0. You are free to waste your money on an RPi3 and a Gigabit USB adapter to test if you get anywhere near that though.

I recommend using a old desktop with freenas. Bitrot is evil.

That's like 48mb/s senpai transfer speed.

>You are free to waste your money on an RPi3 and a Gigabit USB adapter to test if you get anywhere near that though.

Why do I need to do that when I can just google it?

jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/getting-gigabit-networking

>disk i/o on the same bus
>network performance will go to shit when drives are in use

The embedded port is already on the same bus. Point still is you can get higher than the 100Mbit. Also Sup Forums is dumb and poor for considering it anyway but I'm still going to point it out.

Just install gentoo on your Raspberry

GOT2 BE BATE

No, it's 60 MB/s. That's 60 megaBYTES per second, not 48 megabits. It is 480 megabits.

Use Raspberry Pi 3 and four externally-powered USB-3 4TB HDDs. There, extremely capable home NAS for just the price of the HDDs.

Don't bother with the Zero.

If you're not bothered with low bandwidth, go for it. It's not the perfect solution, but it's the smallest, cheapest, and most power efficient of all.

I do just that myself for my tiny nomadic computer setup. As long as I don't put a huge strain on it, it's just fine, and definitely good enough for watching a 1080p movie or listening to FLAC.

But, wouldn't that also draw too much power? I'm thinking maybe a x/t60 If its turns out they don't draw too much.

all those wasted trips

i think rpi has usb2, so you will be limited by those speeds. it should be able to handle nextcloud, but i would suggest seafile or even syncthing. I have a chinese clone and i had no problems with it, but it is not used as a nas.

also syncthing would eliminate the 100mbit limit