Tag: greyhole
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RPi NAS: Part 10 Examples of Share Permissions
We’ve installed Greyhole and we know how to mount Samba shares on our system. In the video of the 8th post we only created one share to which everybody has access. In this post we’ll look at a few ways of restricting access to Samba shares for different users. A little preface: I’m writing this…
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RPi NAS: Part 9 Mounting Shares on Various Systems
In the video in the previous post we installed Greyhole on our Raspberry Pi. We also set up a simple Samba share. In this post we’re going to mount Samba shares on a few different operating systems. Mounting Samba shares is not difficult and there are lots of resources available online. So this post is…
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RPi NAS: Part 8 Software Setup [Video]
In the previous posts we covered the hardware related aspects that matter for this NAS, now we can finally set up our system! This post contains a video that goes through the process of setting up a Raspberry Pi and installing and configuring Greyhole. Setting up the NAS involves a lot of steps, which are…
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RPi NAS: Part 7 RPi Model
In the previous posts we covered most hardware-related aspects of our NAS. So far we’ve always assumed that we’re going to use a Raspberry Pi 4b. But what changes if we use a RPi 3b or RPi 5? Unfortunately I was a bit too slow when the Raspberry Pi 5 became available in my country…
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RPi NAS: Part 6 Power Supply
We’re almost done with our discussion about the hardware we’ll use for our NAS. In this post we’ll have a brief look at the power supply for the Raspberry Pi. About Power Supplies I’ve used an official Raspberry Pi power supply for all the tests we’ve done so far. Since our (powered) USB Hub has…
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RPi NAS: Part 5 Storage Drives
In the previous post we selected a USB Hub for our NAS. But before we can save the data that arrives via Ethernet we have to pick a drive on which to store the Samba shares. In this post we’ll investigate which transfer speeds we can expect for HDDs and SSDs. Then we’ll pick one…
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RPi NAS: Part 4 USB Hub
Our data has safely reached the RPi via some network connection. Before we can save it onto a hard- or solid-state drive we have to think about how those drives will be connected to the Raspberry Pi. I’m sure you’ve noticed that we have two USB 3 ports available on the Raspberry Pi 4b/5 but…
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RPi NAS: Part 3 Network Connections
In the previous post we decided on booting from an SD card. Now we’ll have a look at the speed of different types of network connections. When we want to copy data to our NAS we first have to send it via a network from our computer to the Raspberry Pi. The speed of the…
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RPi NAS: Part 2 Boot Medium
The latest Raspberry Pi’s can boot from the built-in SD card slot but also from a USB device connected to one of the USB ports. Which one should we use for our NAS? And why? Let’s find out. So we want to select a boot medium for our NAS. There are a few options: SD…
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RPi NAS: Extras – Greyhole
I thought it might be a good idea to briefly talk about how Greyhole works before we continue with the main series of posts. So this post is intended to give an overview of Greyhole, it doesn’t contain any detailed instructions (those will be covered separate posts). We’ll use Greyhole to provide data redundancy for…