Use Home Assistant OS as simple NAS

Installation Home Assistant OS
1

Hi,
i have some large NGFF SSD’s lying around.
Is it possible to connect those to the Rpi, that is installed with Home Assistant and share those disks as a simple NAS?

Thanks!

2

Why not just buy another Pi for the NAS function? Current supply chain issues aside, kludging non-standard stuff onto HA OS to save ~$50 seems like a bad idea no matter how you slice it…

3

Depending on how adventurous you are, you can use the Pi to run Home Assistant in a Docker container and then run whatever else you want alongside. I’ve currently got a single Pi 4B running Home Assistant with Nextcloud and Samba for file sharing on an external drive.

I’ve got a GitHub project with all the gory details and a bunch of automation to make it easier.

4

Here is a great addon that mounts all attached disks as smb shares : [New Addon] Samba NAS. (Mount external disk and share it )