Today I'll show you how to build a rock-solid home/office NAS server using a Mini-ITX motherboard, a dedicated hardware RAID card, and enterprise class SAS hard drives, all in a Mini-ITX NAS case with an 8 drive hot-swap bay. Total budget is between USD$850 to USD$2,000 depending on the hardware you choose (I'll give links to all the gear you'll need). Introduction & Notes Having your own home or office NAS server is a great way to back up … [Read more...] about Build a Mini-ITX NAS RAID Server with Enterprise SAS Hard Drives
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Build a Raspberry Pi RAID NAS Server – [UPDATED 2020]
2020-05-26: This guide is now updated to reflect some bug fixes and changes in mdadm and Samba. Introduction Today I'll show you how to build a Raspberry Pi 3/4 RAID NAS server using USB flash drives and the Linux native RAID application mdadm, along with SAMBA so the drive will show up as a normal network folder on Windows PC's. It's an intermediate tutorial (not for noobs) and shows you how to create a Linux RAID array which is a good skill … [Read more...] about Build a Raspberry Pi RAID NAS Server – [UPDATED 2020]