Digital storage has now become a necessity. It has ubiquitous in our day to day lives, either at work or at home. Our everyday go to devices have this, from computers, mobile phones, smart tv and myriads and myriads of technology related apparatus.
However, there will be times you would like to have all your files in one location. There are so many options to do this. You can use the most accessible, which is the cloud. storage services like google drive, one drive, dropbox etc. offer these services for free or for a premium depending on the size of storage. The free tier can range from 10 to 25 depending on which provider you will choose. 100GB and up to Terabytes are available for the premium tiers.
For those who want their file accessible on premise (at home or office), Network Attached Storage(NAS) has been around for many years. The only caveat to this solution is that is a bit more expensive at first and you will need to have a little more technical knowhow to manage and maintain them. The benefits of having your own NAS is accessibility, expandability and proximity to your data.
In this article we shall focus on using the raspberry pi 4B. This is single board computer that can do many wonders. the different uses are Home Media Center, Retro Games Console, AI Object recognition, LED Board control center and many others. We will focus on how to make this computer to be come a NAS.
Here is the link to the raspberry pi 4B
The second thing we need is Rock Pi Quad SATA HAT attachment to the raspberry pi. This is the device attachment that enables you to plugin SATA hard drives to the single board computer. You can use HDD or SSDs with a total capacity of 10 Terabytes!!!!! this comes with a customized chasis and power adapter to give your drives the needed power.
You can see more details from this site .
Dual Quad SATA HAT – Radxa Wiki
Check out our Video to see our in-depth review!!
You can get your own Rock Pi Quad Sata Hat from here
QUAD SATA KIT for Raspberry Pi 4 CASE ONLY – ALLNET China
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