I think that you could definitely get something working well for that setup. The one comment I'd have is use ZFS for your filesystems and then it becomes super easy to add storage later, or setup mirroring, or whatev you want. ZFS does an amazing job of separating out the physical drives from the volumes, so you can move things around how you need later.

Ted

On Sep 5 2024, at 10:22 am, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Hi,

I happened upon an article with the heading "6 reasons you should use
Ubuntu for your own NAS"

https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-you-should-use-ubuntu-for-your-own-nas/

I could use a NAS immediately. I was holding off until I get some cash
flow.

This article got me thinking. It mentions SMB or NFS. I have not done
anything with SMB or NFS for years.

I would like something simple to share files locally between my wife and
I. Her computer runs Win 11 and I am on Kubuntu 24.04. I'm a PHP
developer and do some Linux (Ubuntu) for LAMP configurations. I am not
afraid of the command line and I am not near being a Sys admin.

I have a couple old Dells that can handle 2 hard drives each and I have
multiple 1TB HD's.

I'm thinking I can build a simple NAS using the parts I already have.

I'm not sure there is a benefit of using Linux with SMB and/or NFS other
than having more exposure to Ubuntu.

I'm thinking there might be an over the counter/Open Source NAS that
might be a long term solution where later maybe I can build a larger
NAS.

Any thoughts are much appreciated.

Keith
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