Raspberry Pi 4 OpenMediaVault NAS

[Music] welcome to another video from explaining computers comm this time I'm going to set up an as a network attached storage solution using a Raspberry Pi 4 and the software open media vault so if you're up for some PI based file sharing let's go and get started to build our grass peopie for mass we're clearly going to need a raspy pi/4 and here I've got a 4 gigabyte model must be pi/4 because it's the one I happen to own but you could use the 1 gigabyte version of a 2 gigabyte version to build and there's and indeed if I was personally buying a Raspberry Pi for to use in a low-cost NASA project I would buy the the one gigabyte to the a $35 version in addition to the Raspberry Pi 4 we're going to need a power supply here's the official Raspberry Pi for power supply USBC power supply and we're also going to need a micro SD card got one down here to put our open BD Evoque software onto and this is a Sun disc ultra card table card I always use with SBC's this is a 16 gigabyte card you don't need a card that big it could be 8 gigabytes I'm sure that worked perfectly well but it is worth pointing out if you're going to be using an as long term your software could be running off the micro SD card which was getting at a decent quality card finally here we've got a an Ethernet leaders you can see we're going to be using a wide connection to connect the Raspberry Pi for to the network you can use the open media volt software with a wireless connection but it isn't advised and certainly for setup we need a wired connection so these parts here give us a network attached part of this project so let's now turn to storage and when using open media vault we have to have a separate drive to our micro sd card connected to use it on network file store and that can be any form of USB connectible storage device we can connect to our Raspberry Pi 4 so it could just be something as simple as a USB Drive this is a USB 3 a guerrilla drive we could just connect this to our Raspberry Pi 4 into a USB 3 port and use that as our file storage and that might be perfectly sufficient if you want to build a small Mouse share a few files or if you just want to build a mouse to learn about now some configuration this said I think most people will probably use one of these which is a satyr 2 USB 3 adapter is connecting to our PI for something like that and would allow us to connect in like this say this SSD and in this test I'm going to be using this SSD as our network file store and I could be using instead a a two and a half inch hard drive through the two and half inch hard drive and I have tested this driver honor us with high for using this adapter to see if it works okay can be powered okay and it can and that's good news because this is a Western Digital black two-and-a-half inch hard drive which means it spins a bit faster than some other two and a half inch drive uses more power and so if this runs fine with the rush by four which it does it means you should be able to connect any form of a toward a half inch high drive two of us before using its official power supply and adapts like this and it should work absolutely fine but the reason I'm going to be using the SSD in this test is because I've tried connecting these drives to a Raspberry Pi four and just testing the speed locally and we can do about eighty three eighty four megabytes a second from the hard drive and about two hundred eighty from the SSD and I am going to be running a speed test in this video it won't have to be constrained by the speed of the drive we won't get anything like 280 megabytes a second from our now's because of the constraint of Gigabit Ethernet but I thought we should give it the best shot possible it's worth pointing out you could connect multiple drives to a Raspberry Pi for to build and asses lots of port so you could use and you could use this with a half inch hard drive in a mouse you'd have to find a way of powering it you can't power more than the two and a half inch drive from the Raspberry Pi for so these are all our parts let's now get them all put together and by the magic of filmmaking here we are everything has been connected up and also fastened down to a couple of pieces of plastic card to make our nice test rig and I've also added on a fan the fan shrimp and primer only on to the pie for to keep it cool you'd probably get away without a heat sink or a fan building and now as with the Raspberry Pi for because I've got this available I thought it out it in and I'll point out here we don't have to add on a keyboard or a mouse or a monitor because the interface will open by default is web-based as you'll see in a second and a talkie evoke can be via volt I think it's now high time we went in search about software so we can write it to our micro SD card so here we are on the open media vault website after open media vault org and if we go to a download obviously we can download files we just skip on past year advert there we want an installation image you will click on the those there and that will take us through to source forward yes it does and if we go down here you'll see we've got raspberry pi images so I'll click on that and if we go down here you'll see that open media vote for which is the latest version at the time I'm making this video in what September 2019 is available for the raspberry pi 2 3 3 + & 4 so that image will work for us so I'll click on that and hopefully it'll come up in a second it will do a little timer thing as a SourceForge does and there we are so let's save our file and there we are our file has downloaded I went Ali to write it to a micro SD card and to do that we're going to go use a program called Berliner sure which you can download from this website here but they know dot IO forward stuff sure I've already done that so the program sitting waiting for us here you know windows so well roll it up and there we are we'll select our image which is the one we've just downloaded and there we are and your seats picked up the SD card I've got plugged in which is our Sun disk card there we could change it with us the one we've plugged in if it's confusing which saying Lexar here it selects our reader into which system this card is plugged so all we've got to do now is click on that flash and that'll take a second oh yes do we want to do it yes we do I must get rid of all those annoying messages in Windows anyway this will now write the image to the SD card it'll take a second so we'll speed on through and there we are it's finished and whatever you do do not now reformat with this just click on cancel their windows doesn't understand the micro SD card now it's plugged into it but that doesn't matter so what we need to do now is to remove our SD card from this Windows machine and to put it into the Raspberry Pi and then we can move it up and there we are it is now doing its thing setting up open media vault and the most important thing to say about this now is you have to be patient it can take up to about 20 minutes for open media volt to set itself up to sort everything out on our Raspberry Pi and I think one of the most common problems people have with open media vault is they start off this process they think nothing has happened they closed down the pi they corrupt the card and they get into a real mess so got to be patient try making a cup of tea or even go for a walk in the park and talk to a couple of ducks but whatever you do let open media vult get on with what it's doing wait until there's no flickering of the green LED you'll end up with just a red LED on solid that's the power LED but no activity from the drive LED and once you're in that position it's time to access and configure open media vote right we're now going to access open media vault using its web interface and to do that we need to enter its local IP address it's local Internet Protocol address into the address bar in our browser but what is that address well there's various ways we could find it and probably easiest is use a free piece of software such as advanced IP scanner which we can download from advanced IP scanner comm there we are it's down there or we could use a program I use a lot angry IP scanner which you can get from anger IP dot-org and one of the reasons I like this if you click on download here you can download a legacy file which is simply IP scammed or XE you don't have to install anything that will work any version of Windows but regardless of which program you use you've clearly got to use it as it were so let's run up first of all advanced IP scars I show you that and there it is and we'll click on scan and what this is doing is scanning between different IP addresses on my network as a default it's scanning between 192 168 1 1 and 1 and 2 1 6 8 1 2 5 4 and that will hopefully find these things on our network and that there we are it's just flicked up it's found the Raspberry Pi which is on 192 168 1 7 so let's stop that scan and just to prove it can be done other ways I happen to like this one as I've said now you write P scan oh you've got a tell about a scan from so I'll use 192 168 1 0 2 maybe one that to wanting say one say 20 and again it should find their ass beep I hopefully as it come up oh it's it come up it hasn't actually given us the hostname sometimes you don't get the hostname in all of these packages and from open media vault but certainly we could see it sitting there 1 2 1 6 8 1 7 so let's go to the internet again go back to the web and enter that address 192 168 1 7 its anticipated me I've been here before of course and I will just open that up due to my scaling and we'll login using the admin account for which the default password is open media what if I can spell it correctly whilst talking to you looks like I can because we've got in and you might want to go here to general settings and change your password for the web administrators to something other than open media vault and I think we'll just have a look to see if everything is working okay if we go down to system information and clear everything is down there and open media vault is a very sophisticated system as you can probably see down here we've got lots and lots of options and things to set and play with and people can find out I think a bit daunting it was once said to me years ago that networking is the last of a black art of computing and there's sort of certain truth to that so what I'm going to do in my next section is to show you how to set up the most straightforward the most simple file share using open media vault right what we're now going to do is to set up a public shared folder on our Raspberry Pi nas which can be seen by everybody who's got access to this network and to do this the first thing we need to do is to go down to storage and you'll see under disks here which also means that SSDs that there are two disks on this system one is the micro SD card which is used by an open media vault to store its own software and the other is the SSD we've got connected to the PI and you'll see if we select that we can actually do things with it we could wipe it we needed to we won't do that we can click on edit change things about the drive if it was a hard drive we could change it to spin down time things like that but for now everything there is fine but the drive the SSD isn't actually mounted so we need to go down to file systems where you'll see in a second as they come up there they are that there's two petitions already mounted from the micro SD card which open media voltage using but the Sun disk SSD is not mounted so we need to select it and surprise surprise click on mount and that will take a little second the little message will come up do we want to do this yes you'll see these brushes allotted open media vault very important to wait for them make sure they happen and there we are our Sun disk SSD is now mounted so the next thing we need to do is to go down to access rights management here we could set up users and give them passwords and different privileges for different folders we've shared but I'm going to go straight to shared folders and I'm going to go on add to create a shared folder we'll call it for example PI stuff stuff we've got on the PI and it's going to be on the SanDisk SSD and the permissions here we're going to give it are going to be a everybody can read and write totally wide access to this so I'm going to click on it save there and again in a second we'll have a thing to say yes and we'll apply that and now the final thing we need to do is to go down to services and here we're going to use what's called a SMB CIFS which stands for server message block protocol common Internet file system it's basically the means of sharing files across networks most commonly used in Windows as indicated by the little windows symbol over there so if we click on that we can go to first of all enable do make sure you remember to enable all the whole thing while work and make sure you click on the save and ii will see our message there it is and we'll apply and yes and then with that done we can go to shares and we're going to add a share and the shared folder is going to be the one we've created pi stuff and this is going to be public on only guests and only guests means that we no password will use I'm required to access this folder and again we can click on save and it'll come up with its confirmatory message apply that and yes and once it is completed in theory we have set up a shareable folder on our network using open media vault so the next thing we should do is to see if that's actually working so I'm going to close that down like that and as we're here in Windows 10 I'll show you how to access a shared folder in Windows 10 and the first thing to do here is to go to settings and to go to a network and Internet and then we need to go down here a little bit and to network and sharing center there it is and then to advanced sharing settings and you want to make sure network discovery is turned on if that's not all needed to turn it on or this won't work so I'll just thought I'd show you that to be a safe and then we'll go to this PC I can click properly there we are and we'll go to a computer and we'll map network drive over there and we now need to browse is probably easiest hopefully it'll find it there we just look it's calling it Raspberry Pi there and there we are we click on that and there we are there's pi stuff and we can go OK and finish and then hopefully if I go it's a bit more space here there we are PI stuff is now being listed as a network drive on this system and if I open it up David is it obviously it's empty because there's nothing in it so they got a folder down here with other things in whereas it there's a folded out some things in and we could take those files and obviously copy I can get to copy like that now we can place them onto our new network file store so there we are we've managed to create a shared folder on our PI using open media vault and to access it from another computer right as you might have noticed that the end of the last segment the file transfer speed onto our mouse didn't seem very fast and it promised we'd do a speed test of the mouse drive we created there it is look so we'll do that now because the crystal disk mark is magically appeared on this system there's some reason it wasn't there I hadn't got it here and we've got the Zed Drive actually selected which is our shared drive on the drive on the PI the SSD and we're going to be copying about half a gigabyte of data and we'll just run the first test here in crystal this mark which will just give us a test of copying that very large file so let's just run that test and speed through it and there we are we've got our results we've got a read speed of 115 megabytes a second that's pretty much what you'd expect around the maximum you can get from a Gigabit Ethernet but we've got a write speed of only forty nine point three seven megabytes a second which is massively less than the speed of the SSD connected to the system not quite sure why that's so low but it always good to have something to discuss in the comments on this channel with its Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3 ports the Raspberry Pi 4 can form the basis of a good low-cost network attached storage solution and as we sit in this video setting things up using open media vault is pretty straightforward but now that's it for another video if you've enjoyed that you seen here please press that like button if you haven't subscribed please subscribe and I hope to talk to you again very soon [Music] you

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Keywords: Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi, Pi 4, OpenMediaVault, Open Media Vault, NAS, network attached storage, Pi file sharing, OpenMediaVault setup, OpenMediaVault Pi, Open media vault raspberry Pi, open media vault raspberry Pi, Open media vault Pi 4, configuration, open media vault configuration, Christopher Barnatt, Barnatt, Raspberry Pi network attached storage, Raspberry Pi NAS, Pi 4 NAS

Id: bpvlEbdA6qI

Length: 18min 11sec (1091 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 13 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/ravenousld3341]

I can confirm that Open Media Vault is quite nice.

[u/w00ddie]

Not to hijack but the HC2 is perfect for a NAS and has the sata connector.

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two/

Just an FYI for those not familiar with it.

[u/Ragecc]

Would there be much or any difference using a RaspberryPi Zero and a RaspberryPi 3B+? I'm not sure how much performance is a factor running open media vault. Are any of you running this on a Zero?

Edit: It doesn't look like there is a .img file for the zero. Will the .img that says 2_3_3+_4 work on a zero?

[u/stan_qaz]

I used an adapter cable and SSD for a while but got tired of the clutter, looked at some of the small boxes that would hold both but decided on a piggy-back M.2 board that is a much cleaner solution. For my needs, serving music to my Sonos USB 2.0 is plenty fast enough.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NH2W8NL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[u/drewkungfu]

What's the best way to remote access the NAS?

Do you do static IP?

Are there any concerns of having the system/storage exposed to the www?

[u/OundercoverO]

I wanted a guide on how to achieve similar functionalities but on a simple linux based OS, in my case im running raspbian but im planning on switching to manjaro, but that doesnt really matter that much.

[u/jherioch]

I'm going to give this a shot with the SupTronics x855 board, a pi4B 1G, and a 240G mSATA ssd.

http://www.suptronics.com/miniPCkits/x855.html

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I already have a 16TB FreeNAS but I need something that is low power, fast, and I don't have to worry about the spinning disks failing because I've left it on for a week...

Should be fun...

[u/FilipDadaj]

Hello,

Is it possible to plug in this adepter? https://www.czc.cz/axagon-adsa-fp2-usb3-0-sata-6g-2-5-hdd-ssd-fastport2-adapter/200902/produkt?gclid=Cj0KCQjwoqDtBRD-ARIsAL4pviATLRhced_mQG7reQbJpIia4A3zbPDwsN_o9Wn3xkWIoqX2mq5GlH8aAoFsEALw_wcB I would like build a NAS server. Just asking becouse of the usb ports. Can it handle such a power??? Thank for feedback :)