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title: Creating an open source NAS
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description: My process for building an open source NAS with a powerful single board computer and a couple of large HDDs
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tags: Sysadmin NAS Backups
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date: 2020-03-09 23:43 -0400
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cover: /assets/posts/disk.png
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draft: true
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A few months ago, I decided that I needed a NAS. I didn't want anything
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proprietary because this was going to store all of my data, my mother's,
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possibly some friends', as well as backups for _all_ of my servers; I needed to
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know I had full control over every aspect of the system to ensure it was secure.
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To that end, I decided to build it with an SBC[^1] from
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[Pine64](https://www.pine64.org).
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# Parts
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- [ROCKPro64](https://store.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-4gb-single-board-computer) -
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$79.99
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- [NAS
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Case](https://store.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-metal-desktopnas-casing) -
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$44.99
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- [SATA -> PCIe adapter & RAID
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controller](https://www.amazon.com/N-ORANIE-Controller-HyperDuo-Multiplier-88SE9230/dp/B07KYP5RRL) -
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$47.99
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- [6 TB WD Red Pro](https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822234344) - $203.99
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- [Heatsink w/
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fan](https://store.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-10mm-low-profile-heatsink-with-fan) -
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$5.29
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- [Fan for the
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case](https://store.pine64.org/?product=fan-for-rockpro64-metal-desktopnas-casing) -
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$3.99
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- Power supply:
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[US](https://store.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-12v-5a-us-power-supply) or
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[EU](https://store.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-12v-5a-eu-power-supply) -
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$12.99
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- [16 GB eMMC Module](https://store.pine64.org/?product=16gb-emmc) - $15.95
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- Any microSD card
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**Total:** $415.18
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To reduce the overall cost, you could go with a cheaper HDD; I got this one
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because I need reliability in the _very_ long run but a more inexpensive disk is
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perfectly suitable. Without accounting for the drive, the NAS is ~$215 and very
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reasonably priced compared to most other options.
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# Assembly
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Refer to [Pine64's wiki](https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/NASCase) on
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assembling the case. I don't know if it was intentional or what but, for the
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HDDs, I was only given enough screws for one. For the cover, I still have three
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empty screw holes. It's not a huge deal but it would have been nice to have
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enough screws for everything.
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# Software
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I chose to go with [OpenMediaVault](https://openmediavault.org). However, I
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didn't use Pine64's image; there were a variety of errors when basic operations
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were run so I decided to use vanilla [armbian](https://www.armbian.com).
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Thankfully, they have an image for the
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[ROCKPro64](https://www.armbian.com/rockpro64/) and it worked flawlessly. The
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next step was getting OMV set up on it but, like a boss, they provide a script
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for that 😉
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```bash
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wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/installScript/master/install
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chmod +x install
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sudo ./install
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```
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Additional setup info can be found in an [armbian
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guide](https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/docs/blob/master/Adden-A-Installing_OMV5_on_Armbian.pdf)
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they've created.
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# Drivers
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This posed a huge problem for me. Neither the "official" ROCKPro64 OMV image nor
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armbian included the driver for my RAID controller so I had to figure that out.
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Huge shoutout to `fromport` in the `#openmediavault` channel on Freenode; they
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were a _massive_ help with getting the driver situation sorted out.
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Check out [Secluded.Site](https://secluded.site), my personal webpage; I'll be
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using it for posts like this in the future and will try to leave this space for
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official announcements (like when backups have been automated using this very
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NAS 😉).
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[^1]: Single Board Computer
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