I read a bunch of guides to installing it using OMV but they all seemed overly complicated involving Docker or other things. It provides a nice UI and set of plugins smoothing the way like a butter coated bar of soap.Ī video by the rather nerdy but very helpful Techno Dad Life got me going with UnionFS which merges disks together so they appear as one large file system and SnapRAID which gives me a simple way to provide redundancy to the NAS. I setup SSH and VNC for easy access then assigned a static IP address to the Pi using the Google Home app.Īfter a bunch of research and experimentation (which I will not bore you with) I decided to go with Open Media Vault (OMV) as my main way of managing the Pi. So I decided to just go with the standard Raspbian OS, I grabbed the ISO smashed it on an SD card and got cracking. Unraid would have been my first choice for a NAS / Media Server but it requires an x86 CPU and the Pi is ARM so unfortunately thats a non starter. Low Cost, I aint made of money, if I was I would just buy a Drobo.Powerful, it doesnt need to be a super computer but it needs to have enough juice to transcode a 4k video.Redundant, im not storing my sons baby pics on it or anything but I would rather not loose the data either, so some sort of redundancy would be nice.Flexible, I have a bunch of old hard drives, so I want to just sling them in there and have them all just work and contribute to one large pool of 'stuff'.Quiet, its going to live in my office, so I don't want it bothering me with it whining all the time.Low Power, its going to be on all day so it should just sip from the fountain of joules.Since I had a spare Raspberry Pi 4 glaring at me from my desk I thought, sure why not, how hard could it be? Requirements

So I wanted to build a low-powered NAS and Plex server so when I put PC asleep at night I can still enjoy some quality time with my content on the TV downstairs. My PC is awesome but it has a bit of an addiction to Watts.

Raspberry pi plex server