Considering DIY NAS with 4-Bay DAS and Raspberry Pi or similar - Worth It?

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Title: Considering DIY NAS with 4-Bay DAS and Raspberry Pi - Worth It?

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Hi everyone!

I've been exploring options for setting up a NAS at home and stumbled upon the idea of using a 4-bay DAS connected to a Raspberry Pi to create a DIY NAS. I'm drawn to this because of the potentially lower cost compared to buying a ready-made NAS unit. However, I'm curious about the performance and practicality of such a setup.

Here's what I'm considering:

DAS: A 4-bay Direct Attached Storage for the hard drives. Raspberry Pi: Using this as the 'brain' of the NAS. Purpose: Primarily for home use – storing media, personal files, and maybe some light server tasks. Budget: Trying to keep the costs lower than a pre-built NAS so I can focus in getting big quality HDDs

Is this a viable option?

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I think it depends on what you want to do, a setup like that probably won’t have a ton of throughput, so if you want to do a lot of high speed access it may not great. If you want to copy a backup or Linux iso to I periodically it would work.
A raspberry pi 4 won’t be worth it for this. It would be a much better idea to find an older desktop with an intel cpu
- I have one lying around, it's about how stupid of an idea this, is performance, mantainability, etc
No.