HASS PI as NAS

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I am looking to setup a NAS so that I have a common place to save images acquired by my security cameras etc. I found a couple of guides for setting up a Pi as a NAS (network attached storage). I want to do this on the Pi I use to run HA, but I don’t want a solution which interrupts HA. What have people tried and recommend?
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IMHO don’t use a PI as NAS it is really slow because everything goes on the USB-Pipe. Read / Write is just horrendous in my opinion. Better way would be to mount a “real” NAS solution via SMB / NFS.

But if you really wanna do it I can’t think of a reason why not. A friend of mine is using his synology to run HA.

~Cheers

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I suppose I could also set up my 2 Tb Time capsule as a NAS - then point my pi zero to that to save images which could be accessed by HA on another pi…? Perhaps I am overcomplicating this!

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That sounds perfectly reasonable to me…save from one point onto NAS, access from another…that’s what a NAS is mostly about :slight_smile:

~Cheers

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OpenMediaVault for Raspberry Pi + Home Assistant.

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Can i run OpenMediaVault + Home Assistant.on the same Raspberry Pi?

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Yes, I checked it.

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I have several home built NAS and tried OMV on a Pi with mirrored disks. Didn’t work well at all. You can run a NAS off a Pi for file sharing but I think every geek I ever ran into once they figured out they could run media servers and stuff off of NAS they usually do. You can build a pretty great NAS for next to nothing on a micro ATX board and inexpensive chip.

Just my opinion. I’ve run NAS on pi several times and found it not that great of an experience.

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installing in the dockers?

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Nope. I flashed Openmediavault image for RPi 2, and then installed Home Assistant in a virtual environment (virtualenv).

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tonight I will try this system on an old motherboard mini-itx that I home equipped with intel atom n270, 2 gb ram and 1 tb hd sata

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I agree, Pi is really slow for use as NAS and streaming media

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can you say how slow exactly? I use my wifi router as Nas and read//write is 2,5 MByte max. Do you think a RPI3 could perform better?