Personal NAS

I felt bad leaving the HP Compaq DC5750 sitting off in the corner of the room not being used with three 500-gigabyte HDDs in it. So I decided to bring it back into the network and as my personal documents and media files NAS. Both because this system may be a bit under-powered and because I don’t do a lot of media streaming, this won’t be running anything like Plex, but rather, it will be a network drive that acts as the collective “Documents/Downloads/Pictures/Music” folders for all of my desktop OS systems and my cellphone.

I did a clean install of Ubuntu Server on the Intel 180-gigabyte SSD, installed Samba and pointed it to a two drive RAID0 (two WD Blue 500-gigabyte HDD). A very simple setup and just enough for what I plan to use it for. When I was a Google Drive user, I felt pretty comfortable with the 100-gigabytes that I was paying for, so 500-gigabyte should be more than I’ll need to keep a bunch of random documents and downloads.

Being that I still have a spot for one more drive in this system, I’m planning to pick up another 10-terabyte HDD (in the future) to use as a backup for the OptiPlex 7040 NAS I mentioned last week.