This is very helpful, especially since you provided a simpler setup/install process. Thanks for the update, & for your extremely clear demonstration & explanations. This is an example of what keeps me coming back every Sunday for another video. I've saved & tagged this for use when I update my home NAS.
Having used Linux on and off for years, the -y as a flag to default all answers during that command execute is the one thing I have learned today. How I have missed that I will never know!
If you have customized configurations or perhaps software installed from outside the repositories that need certain packages to work, be very careful with that -y, or you might end crying tears of blood.
Thanks Chris. I have tried several online guides for this and yours worked better than all of them. Your videos are clear and unambiguous which is great - no assumed knowledge which is a big failing with other guides. Whilst Open Media Vault had changed quite a bit by the time I came of this video, I still found my way around. Thanks - I'm up and running!
@@karmageddon9136 well uhhhhh Not much of an expert, I mean we're a company that utilizes stands for Raspberry Pi's, you can contact the CEO as he's more of an expert at this.
Christopher, I learnt a lot from this video, so thank you so much for posting it! Your comment on talking to ducks was also super-useful too, as that is the one thing I've not done when setting up OMV, so thank you. You must have higher-class ducks where you are though, as the ones in my area just seem to eat bread, poop, and know next to nothing about technology. They still haven’t been able to fix my network woes.
Just recently I bought a nice 4 hdd enclosure and a pi 4 to follow your old video tutorial and found out it was outdated. Managed to configure it anyway, but thanks to you I got to know OMV. Nice video. It's working very nice here.
All the best ... the 750 k subscriber mark is in the horizon ... I like your looking back and Re Covering of previous projects. It feels that you do not forget good stuff that is working. And each time you Recover a project it gets into my head If and when I could or should replace my WDcloud with a Pi solution ... cause a Pi4 NAS has enough power to run other services in top like pi-hole I checked the power consumption of my Pi4 running Pi hole and 40 kWh a year is a lot ... but replacing my WDcloud would save a similiar amount. Now the Pi4 is running 247 but rarely used as desktop ... I had bought a Pi400 to get ridd off that Overhead using a Pi4 for a pi-hole job.
Oh my god, I was literally in the middle of doing this for my pi (upgrading a really old nas using a hdd dock) and then this video popped up. Thank you for the help!
Just went through all the steps in the official instructions. Worked a treat. Pi 3B+ LiteOS & OMV with external 240Gb 3.5” HD in its own powered enclosure. Thanks for the detailed tutorial.
Thanks for a very clear and lucid tutorial on the OMV NAS. Your tutorials are easy to follow and I have also been successful when I attempt them. Thanks once again for the wonderful work you do for the SBC community.
Really appreciate!!!! Yesterday couldn't stop having a talk for a while with some duck's ... than curious to see how was running into my pi 2b... Finished around midnight. Just 20 minutes to install and run OMV... Great guide... Great Christmas gift thank you Sir.
@@rewindcat7927 no, they removed the function because UA-cam actively suppress some opinions, especially on political topics and they don't want this bad reviews to be public
Despite youtube being a good business model, I can tell you really care about the viewers on your channel and engage, I've noticed this more recently on new videos you post, more than I have seen on a lot of other channels in that regard
@@ExplainingComputers I don't think you have the umm, age, looks and skimpy wardrobe to be an "influencer" So you have to stick with the skills you have...which work really well for you
Using the command "ping raspberrypi.local" from another computer often times works as another easy way to discover the IP address of a Pi on your local network, where raspberrypi=hostname. Lots of time shuffling around hdmi cables and mouse/keyboard peripherals to be saved : )
Thank you very much Chris ! To everyone who would like to use Pi 3 + OMV 6 + 4TB HDD: 1) Get rid of the partitions on the HDD by using OMVs wipe option(formatted with ext4). 2) DO WHAT Chris DOES, while enabling shared folder. Without these steps I could not manage to make Time machine work on latest MACOS (Montery 12.1). I tried every trick including changing root privileges for the folders. Nothing works except this ! Thank you again Chris !!!!
Hello from the USA, I Have used your tutorial on the NAS Setup using OMV on Pi 4. At the moment, all seems good. I will add more files day by day and see how it goes. I am content with the way the NAS seems to be working right now. I enjoy all your tutorials and have watched numerous other videos from this channel. Keep up the good work. Very helpful to me. Ty
Hi Mr. Barnatt; Thank you for the video update on OMV, i see the install process is a little less user friendly than before to say the least but a very good opportunity for the uninitiated to get familiarized with the Terminal and its power. Ps. Ducks are Great
Such a wonderfully well and simple guided video for setting NAS. Thanks and looking forward to more. And yes the -y command is something extra I learned today.
Thank you for this video. I’m running omv5 for a couple of weeks now, does a pretty good job so far. There are only 2 downsides which are a real bummer. First, there is literally no easy and reliable way to make a backup of the system and restore said backup, a real mayor flaw. Second, the amount of plug in’s is still small compared to omv4.
Thank you for all this information - this and all of your videos. I have worked in various capacities in IT for about 29 years, but I never worked with Linux. I have learned so much from your videos. Very much appreciated. I like the subtle jokes, too! LOL
thank you for sharing all your tests and work with us . i havent been able to do much but watching your videos helps a lot keep me informed about most stuffs am interested in.
Excellent tutorial. I set up an OMV NAS after watching your last video. I now have 2 5TB network drives attached to my pi. One point to note. When mapping the network drive in Windows, I had to enter the IP address of the shared folder. If I didn't use the IP address Windows would randomly prevent me from opening the folder with the message 'network drive not accessable'.
Thanks for this tutorial! I SSH'd into my Pi instead of connecting a KB&M which made it easy as 123. As the Linux rookie I am I really appreciate easy to follow videos like these.
Thanks for the video Chris. We don't have any ducks nearby so I went to the farm and said hello to the moo cows. Have a very happy holidays. I hope Mister Scissors gets some wrapping paper to cut for Christmas.
Wow, I brought up my Notepad to type in the instructions and it took awhile pausing the video and typing in the instructions. Thanks for another great video, enjoyed it. Glad I took typing in High School if I had to hunt and peck I'd be here all night. lol Stay safe and as always, "Enjoy The Adventure."
Hi Chris, another great video. I just spun up OMV on a Pi3. works really well. The only glitch I had was typing the pipe "vertical line" - I would either get # or ~ . I then changed the keyboard layout to US using: sudo raspi-config Select 5, L3, Generic 104-key PC, English US, Enter, Enter finally.... sudo reboot All good after that. Merry Christmas and safe 2021 from Melbourne, Australia.
...... I use a Samba share as NAS but it's always nice to see to see what it's like with other options. There's of course way more options but it still makes me happy to see that people make Videos which help other people.
It's great that you have no ads on your channel Thanks for the great information I'll have to install Pi Hole because UA-cam ads are driving me around the bend
I have enjoyed OMV since your older video installing it on an Odroid. I has a “pair” running backup and backup copy. This installation seems to show OMV running faster. However, my Odriod pair are very much fast enough for my network needs. I do share with family and have a total of 7 resources using my OMV / Odriods.. I enjoy several devices but one source for the file . Brings back memories......
@@ExplainingComputers Thank you for the reply! Can I ask you another quick question? Well, here goes! The ducks didn't know the answer. 🤣 I set this up using laptop A, but now I have new laptop B. But I find that I still need to turn on Laptop A for the NASberry to work. I am new to all this, but I imagine there is a quick fix so that laptop B is all that is required? Thank you so much for everything!
@@stevejanowski4557 You will need to map the network drive on laptop B in order to access the Pi. But once this is done, laptop A should not need to be on. Unless, I guess, the Pi has been turned off and allocated a different IP when the other laptop is turned on?
@@ExplainingComputers It took me a little bit, but I got it to work! My RP4 is connected to a 4TB Seagate external hard drive. I just have to find a nice case for it now, but this was a great project to learn how to do. I have used my RP3 to make an arcade using Emulation Station. I've done a few of those projects, but building the NASberry was educational and helpful to how I access music and movies here at home. THANK YOU!
GREAT VIDEO! I have a massive appreciation for quality, and for good documentation of the process and you did that amazingly! Super appreciate also the very clear text of the shell commands in the screen 🙏 overall definitely earned a new subscriber/supporter here! Thanks for the help on my first pi project.
Excellent update video - very comprehensive... It's a shame they changed the install from image to this, but, the end justifies the means :-) Thank you Christopher!
THANK YOU! 12 minutes for the Open Media Vault installation (which was pleasing!) and I have backed up my Dropbox account successfully. I will now cancel my subscription (I recognise the risks) and save £9.99/month Once again, thank-you
Thanks Chris! I have been running OMV based on your previous video for many months now. Previously I was running a QNAP NAS 4xHDD with associated fan running 24x7x365. Both the RPI4 and powerered USB hub running 4xSSD consume in total around 10W or less, so environmentally as well. QNAP NAS is now turned off awaiting some future use. For basic media serving duties and file storage duties I found OMV a good enough replacement for the QNAP. With Wales now under full lockdown again I will have plenty of time to upgrade to OMV5. Thanks for updated video.
Thanks a lot. Thanks for making these excellent videos and thanks for always setting large fonts so that people with a small tablet or smartphone can actually see what you are doing.
Yet another awesome Barnatt video. Now I have a purpose for the Samsung 1TB SSD I have had sitting around doing nothing for the last several months.... slap some movies on it and when it's time to go recline, I can watch something before going to sleep. Thanks Chris!!!
Many thanks, Christopher! I have moved to a Linux based network at home and I am now introducing Raspberry Pi’s to the setup. I have some experience at work but this is something I am considering for home.
In most routers you can assign a static IP address to the hardware address (MAC) of your NAS. This way you don’t need to rediscover your NAS‘ IP address.
Absolutely true, but there is no way I can cover this in a video that is already too long, as all routers are different. There really is a limit to how much I can explain in one video!
Great video, thank you for sharing. This is something I need and already have all the necessary parts to make. So much better than running a full tower or rack mount system!
Happy Holidays, Prof. Barnatt! The video was released at the perfect time. I was thinking about binging some movies during these holidays. OMV is a very useful tool, but learning its configuration is complex. The installation is not much user-friendly even for Linux users. Thanks for your great explanations!
Another excellent walkthrough . . . I don't think there's any doubt that you'll be getting a new bicycle and lots of toys in a few days, as you've been a very good boy this year! 👍
Thanks a lot. This video helped me build raspberry pi NAS. I used the “heat sink case” and put the drives in cardboard. I was looking at some synology products but they were too expensive especially when it came with 512mb of ram. Yes synology may still have a reliability advantage but in the worse case I can just plug the drives in to my computer.
Nicely done... recently did this with your older instructions and got stuck on the mount process. Thanks for the update 👍. Have a safe and happy holiday season Christmas 🎄
I have to say that this video is extremely good. Great work. The issue I have is that OMV a bit buggy so be warned. It's good for personal use, but if you want to use it for multiple people in your house. Its much better to use Samba on your favorite Linux disro with shared drives. A lot less of a headache. Just set it and forget it. You can't do that with OMV If you're using Windows machines on the network than Samba is the protocol of choice. If you're using MAC OS or other Linux machines on the network. Than it would be better to us NFS instead of Samba. NFS is much faster with data transfer with Unix to Linux or Linux to Linux than Samba.
Only a couple of weeks ago I built this along with Pihole and tvheadend on my 3b+. Since I'm not taking it seriously I'm using the same SSD for boot and storage. Been running perfectly ever since!
_"You can always leaning some things talking to some ducks!"_ ... totally agree!! Thank you! ... Just a couple of observations... 1) I setup my router to allow about 180 IP addresses under DHCP (generally 20 to 199) and thus reserve 1 to 19 and 200 to 254 for various servers and services on my local network. Thus, in device setup, I change it from DHCP and give it a specific IP address ... saves looking it up sometimes, which is handy. 2) I would of *loved* to have seen a separate video, a part 1, of constructing the hardware ... you had some really interesting parts there and would of loved to have watched you put them together (one my personal reasons for watching your shows!) , then this video could of been the logical part 2 sequence follow up!
Very timely! This will be my first Raspberry Pi project, and I've found a neat enclosure/hat kit I want to try. I've been looking at off-the-shelf NAS products, but can't afford any. So this should be interesting. Thanks for the info. :)
Oooo, thanks for this Chris, I am still happily using my pi3 setup I put together from your previous guide on it. I find that using File Explorer app on my iPad the whole setup runs flawlessly for my use. That said, I have been looking for an excuse to pickup a Pi4, and this may well be it 😃
Thank you for cutting through the documentation and getting to the heart of the procedure - as usual Chris. I’m all set up now and very pleased with the result. This is taking the place of a backup NAS which just died on me. Two questions come to mind though... - How do I keep the OS up to date, if running headless? - Is there an easy way to put the OS onto an SSD, rather than the micro-sd? I’ve done a lot of searching but can’t seem to find anything relevant to this (headless) scenario. Many thanks again John R
This is very helpful, especially since you provided a simpler setup/install process. Thanks for the update, & for your extremely clear demonstration & explanations. This is an example of what keeps me coming back every Sunday for another video. I've saved & tagged this for use when I update my home NAS.
Having used Linux on and off for years, the -y as a flag to default all answers during that command execute is the one thing I have learned today. How I have missed that I will never know!
I only learnt it very recently! :) We always have things to learn (especially in Linux).
This website is most handy: explainshell.com/
@@ExplainingComputers Is that what you learnt when you talked to the ducks?
If you have customized configurations or perhaps software installed from outside the repositories that need certain packages to work, be very careful with that -y, or you might end crying tears of blood.
Same here I just started using it this year, and I'm in the same camp.
"Wander to the park and talk to some ducks" LOL
I would certainly do that if only I had such a park nearby.
"Grumpy Old Rick" Wakeman of YES says he talks to ducks!!🤔🤔
Ducks are pretty scarce here, and the plentiful Canada geese only honk and fly away when conversation is attempted. I'm stumped ....
@@EmmEff3168 Canada geese also 💩 a lot... watch your step!!!
This is a need this a days
Thanks Chris. I have tried several online guides for this and yours worked better than all of them. Your videos are clear and unambiguous which is great - no assumed knowledge which is a big failing with other guides. Whilst Open Media Vault had changed quite a bit by the time I came of this video, I still found my way around. Thanks - I'm up and running!
Great to hear you have thing working. Now you can experiment! :)
Hey, its the Co-Founder, i absolutely love the videos you made on our products! I highly appreciate it.
Question. Can you pop in an 8TB drive formatted for windows 8 with data on it and expect to be able to read it using OMV?
@@karmageddon9136 well uhhhhh
Not much of an expert, I mean we're a company that utilizes stands for Raspberry Pi's, you can contact the CEO as he's more of an expert at this.
I have successfully installed OpenMedia Vault in my Raspberry pi 2 and it works smoothly. Thanks Again
Excellent! :)
Christopher, I learnt a lot from this video, so thank you so much for posting it!
Your comment on talking to ducks was also super-useful too, as that is the one thing I've not done when setting up OMV, so thank you. You must have higher-class ducks where you are though, as the ones in my area just seem to eat bread, poop, and know next to nothing about technology. They still haven’t been able to fix my network woes.
@Adam Tresorio And according to Christopher, Linux distros.
Just recently I bought a nice 4 hdd enclosure and a pi 4 to follow your old video tutorial and found out it was outdated. Managed to configure it anyway, but thanks to you I got to know OMV. Nice video. It's working very nice here.
Great to hear!
Been using OMV on an Odroid Cloudshell 2 for a couple of years now. Love the ease of setup and use..
i love this channel. really simple instructions, right to the point and loads of charisma
All the best ... the 750 k subscriber mark is in the horizon ...
I like your looking back and Re Covering of previous projects.
It feels that you do not forget good stuff that is working.
And each time you Recover a project it gets into my head If and when I could or should replace my WDcloud with a Pi solution ... cause a Pi4 NAS has enough power to run other services in top like pi-hole
I checked the power consumption of my Pi4 running Pi hole and 40 kWh a year is a lot ... but replacing my WDcloud would save a similiar amount.
Now the Pi4 is running 247 but rarely used as desktop ...
I had bought a Pi400 to get ridd off that Overhead using a Pi4 for a pi-hole job.
Oh my god, I was literally in the middle of doing this for my pi (upgrading a really old nas using a hdd dock) and then this video popped up. Thank you for the help!
Really saw you go to work on this one Chris. Excellent, as usual. Thanks for the update, and another great video.
Thanks Steve.
I just watched the year old video and ordered a RPi, perfect timing!
Just went through all the steps in the official instructions. Worked a treat. Pi 3B+ LiteOS & OMV with external 240Gb 3.5” HD in its own powered enclosure. Thanks for the detailed tutorial.
Great to hear!
Thanks for a very clear and lucid tutorial on the OMV NAS. Your tutorials are easy to follow and I have also been successful when I attempt them. Thanks once again for the wonderful work you do for the SBC community.
Really appreciate!!!! Yesterday couldn't stop having a talk for a while with some duck's ... than curious to see how was running into my pi 2b... Finished around midnight. Just 20 minutes to install and run OMV... Great guide... Great Christmas gift thank you Sir.
Now only looking for extra power supply and couple of hdd's about 2T each
:)
How is it even possible that people give dislikes to Christopher's videos? He is absolutely brilliant
so true
It was clearly user error, basically clicking the wrong button. Maybe why they removed the button’s normal function?
@@rewindcat7927 no, they removed the function because UA-cam actively suppress some opinions, especially on political topics and they don't want this bad reviews to be public
@@emiliosanchez1784 i get it. i was trying to make a joke about how nobody would ever click the dislike button on purpose here 😉
Following this channel is like Christmas morning on every Sunday morning of the year!
Despite youtube being a good business model, I can tell you really care about the viewers on your channel and engage, I've noticed this more recently on new videos you post, more than I have seen on a lot of other channels in that regard
Thanks for this. I am trying to focus as much as I can on being an educator and film maker, rather than an "influencer".
@@ExplainingComputers I don't think you have the umm, age, looks and skimpy wardrobe to be an "influencer" So you have to stick with the skills you have...which work really well for you
@@mrmotofy Looks can be decieving my friend
Using the command "ping raspberrypi.local" from another computer often times works as another easy way to discover the IP address of a Pi on your local network, where raspberrypi=hostname. Lots of time shuffling around hdmi cables and mouse/keyboard peripherals to be saved : )
The command for enlarging the console text size is surprisingly useful! Thank you Chris!
Thank you very much Chris ! To everyone who would like to use Pi 3 + OMV 6 + 4TB HDD: 1) Get rid of the partitions on the HDD by using OMVs wipe option(formatted with ext4). 2) DO WHAT Chris DOES, while enabling shared folder. Without these steps I could not manage to make Time machine work on latest MACOS (Montery 12.1). I tried every trick including changing root privileges for the folders. Nothing works except this ! Thank you again Chris !!!!
Hello from the USA, I Have used your tutorial on the NAS Setup using OMV on Pi 4. At the moment, all seems good. I will add more files day by day and see how it goes. I am content with the way the NAS seems to be working right now. I enjoy all your tutorials and have watched numerous other videos from this channel. Keep up the good work. Very helpful to me. Ty
Thank you Chris, really appriciate you doing this. I have just updated my Pi to OMV5 with no issues. Keep up the good work and Merry Christmas.
Hi Mr. Barnatt; Thank you for the video update on OMV, i see the install process is a little less user friendly than before to say the least but a very good opportunity for the uninitiated to get familiarized with the Terminal and its power.
Ps. Ducks are Great
oh men , the -y is a good one, didn't know that one.
&& for upgrades with y makes life easier, probably saves all of 500 milliseconds so well worth it lol -- sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade
@@Meganano Only use ssh aliases but one for update/upgrade is a good idea, thanks Luke.
y means yes
Men??
Great video Chris like always 👍
Thanks 👍
Such a wonderfully well and simple guided video for setting NAS. Thanks and looking forward to more. And yes the -y command is something extra I learned today.
Thank you so much for making this updated video. I was lost attempting to install a 64 bit software on my Pi
You are welcome!
Thanks
Thanks for your support, most appreciated. :)
Thank you for this video. I’m running omv5 for a couple of weeks now, does a pretty good job so far. There are only 2 downsides which are a real bummer. First, there is literally no easy and reliable way to make a backup of the system and restore said backup, a real mayor flaw. Second, the amount of plug in’s is still small compared to omv4.
Thanks Chris I have been waiting for this one to appear. You are a star.
No problem!
Thank you for all this information - this and all of your videos. I have worked in various capacities in IT for about 29 years, but I never worked with Linux. I have learned so much from your videos. Very much appreciated. I like the subtle jokes, too! LOL
:)
Thanks Chris. Waiting for my Pi 4B to arrive, than I'll install. Very well described. Keep up the good work.
Enjoy your new Pi! :)
thank you for sharing all your tests and work with us . i havent been able to do much but watching your videos helps a lot keep me informed about most stuffs am interested in.
Excellent tutorial. I set up an OMV NAS after watching your last video. I now have 2 5TB network drives attached to my pi.
One point to note. When mapping the network drive in Windows, I had to enter the IP address of the shared folder. If I didn't use the IP address Windows would randomly prevent me from opening the folder with the message 'network drive not accessable'.
a very useful tutorial and I can accept it as a person who doesn't understand.... thank you Mr. Barnatt
Came As soon As Possible EC....Am Watching this on a Raspberry Pi 400...Awesome media playback!
This says it all -- The Pi 400 is indeed a great machine.
Wow
Thanks for this tutorial! I SSH'd into my Pi instead of connecting a KB&M which made it easy as 123. As the Linux rookie I am I really appreciate easy to follow videos like these.
I am thinking of getting a PI just to experiment with the information from this video. Thank you.
Thanks for the video Chris. We don't have any ducks nearby so I went to the farm and said hello to the moo cows. Have a very happy holidays. I hope Mister Scissors gets some wrapping paper to cut for Christmas.
Wow, I brought up my Notepad to type in the instructions and it took awhile pausing the video and typing in the instructions. Thanks for another great video, enjoyed it. Glad I took typing in High School if I had to hunt and peck I'd be here all night. lol Stay safe and as always, "Enjoy The Adventure."
Hi Chris, another great video. I just spun up OMV on a Pi3. works really well. The only glitch I had was typing the pipe "vertical line" - I would either get # or ~ . I then changed the keyboard layout to US using:
sudo raspi-config
Select 5, L3, Generic 104-key PC, English US, Enter, Enter finally....
sudo reboot
All good after that.
Merry Christmas and safe 2021 from Melbourne, Australia.
Glad to hear that it worked. :)
...... I use a Samba share as NAS but it's always nice to see to see what it's like with other options. There's of course way more options but it still makes me happy to see that people make Videos which help other people.
It's great that you have no ads on your channel
Thanks for the great information
I'll have to install Pi Hole because UA-cam ads are driving me around the bend
I have enjoyed OMV since your older video installing it on an Odroid. I has a “pair” running backup and backup copy. This installation seems to show OMV running faster. However, my Odriod pair are very much fast enough for my network needs. I do share with family and have a total of 7 resources using my OMV / Odriods.. I enjoy several devices but one source for the file . Brings back memories......
Great update Chris, OMV install is indeed very different than the last time I set it up. I hope you and yours will have a very Merry Christmas!
Great project! I followed your instructions to the Z: and everything has worked great! Thank you!! Loved the ducks!
Glad things worked OK. :)
@@ExplainingComputers Thank you for the reply! Can I ask you another quick question?
Well, here goes! The ducks didn't know the answer. 🤣
I set this up using laptop A, but now I have new laptop B. But I find that I still need to turn on Laptop A for the NASberry to work.
I am new to all this, but I imagine there is a quick fix so that laptop B is all that is required?
Thank you so much for everything!
@@stevejanowski4557 You will need to map the network drive on laptop B in order to access the Pi. But once this is done, laptop A should not need to be on. Unless, I guess, the Pi has been turned off and allocated a different IP when the other laptop is turned on?
@@ExplainingComputers It took me a little bit, but I got it to work! My RP4 is connected to a 4TB Seagate external hard drive. I just have to find a nice case for it now, but this was a great project to learn how to do. I have used my RP3 to make an arcade using Emulation Station. I've done a few of those projects, but building the NASberry was educational and helpful to how I access music and movies here at home. THANK YOU!
GREAT VIDEO! I have a massive appreciation for quality, and for good documentation of the process and you did that amazingly! Super appreciate also the very clear text of the shell commands in the screen 🙏 overall definitely earned a new subscriber/supporter here! Thanks for the help on my first pi project.
Thank you very much -- and welcome aboard! :)
Your videos deserve an A+.
Thanks.
Excellent update video - very comprehensive...
It's a shame they changed the install from image to this, but, the end justifies the means :-)
Thank you Christopher!
THANK YOU!
12 minutes for the Open Media Vault installation (which was pleasing!) and I have backed up my Dropbox account successfully. I will now cancel my subscription (I recognise the risks) and save £9.99/month
Once again, thank-you
Sounds like you've had success with OMV. :)
Thanks Chris! I have been running OMV based on your previous video for many months now. Previously I was running a QNAP NAS 4xHDD with associated fan running 24x7x365. Both the RPI4 and powerered USB hub running 4xSSD consume in total around 10W or less, so environmentally as well. QNAP NAS is now turned off awaiting some future use. For basic media serving duties and file storage duties I found OMV a good enough replacement for the QNAP. With Wales now under full lockdown again I will have plenty of time to upgrade to OMV5. Thanks for updated video.
Thanks a lot. Thanks for making these excellent videos and thanks for always setting large fonts so that people with a small tablet or smartphone can actually see what you are doing.
Yet another awesome Barnatt video. Now I have a purpose for the Samsung 1TB SSD I have had sitting around doing nothing for the last several months.... slap some movies on it and when it's time to go recline, I can watch something before going to sleep. Thanks Chris!!!
My favorite Sunday show. Thanks Chris.
This is the best tutorial i have ever seen in the entirety of my life. Thanks
I woke up this morning and was going to install OMV on my pi. To my surprise, you had made a video. Please stay out of my brain. Thanks
Many thanks, Christopher! I have moved to a Linux based network at home and I am now introducing Raspberry Pi’s to the setup. I have some experience at work but this is something I am considering for home.
Really appreciate the time you take to explain every step! Thanks!
Love your excellent video’s, thank you very much for your sharing your knowledge!
Lucky man, the Ducks in my area are ganged up...
In most routers you can assign a static IP address to the hardware address (MAC) of your NAS. This way you don’t need to rediscover your NAS‘ IP address.
Absolutely true, but there is no way I can cover this in a video that is already too long, as all routers are different. There really is a limit to how much I can explain in one video!
Or set a fixed ip address in the pi itself.
Great video, thank you for sharing. This is something I need and already have all the necessary parts to make. So much better than running a full tower or rack mount system!
Thank you for another informative video. This makes it easy and I need to get an extra drive so I can get mine going this week.
Good luck!
Happy Holidays, Prof. Barnatt!
The video was released at the perfect time. I was thinking about binging some movies during these holidays. OMV is a very useful tool, but learning its configuration is complex. The installation is not much user-friendly even for Linux users. Thanks for your great explanations!
Another excellent walkthrough . . . I don't think there's any doubt that you'll be getting a new bicycle and lots of toys in a few days, as you've been a very good boy this year! 👍
Thanks a lot. This video helped me build raspberry pi NAS. I used the “heat sink case” and put the drives in cardboard. I was looking at some synology products but they were too expensive especially when it came with 512mb of ram. Yes synology may still have a reliability advantage but in the worse case I can just plug the drives in to my computer.
This video came out at just the right time for me, thanks very much!
Great to hear. :)
Nicely done... recently did this with your older instructions and got stuck on the mount process. Thanks for the update 👍. Have a safe and happy holiday season Christmas 🎄
I have to say that this video is extremely good. Great work.
The issue I have is that OMV a bit buggy so be warned. It's good for personal use, but if you want to use it for multiple people in your house. Its much better to use Samba on your favorite Linux disro with shared drives. A lot less of a headache. Just set it and forget it. You can't do that with OMV
If you're using Windows machines on the network than Samba is the protocol of choice.
If you're using MAC OS or other Linux machines on the network. Than it would be better to us NFS instead of Samba. NFS is much faster with data transfer with Unix to Linux or Linux to Linux than Samba.
Only a couple of weeks ago I built this along with Pihole and tvheadend on my 3b+. Since I'm not taking it seriously I'm using the same SSD for boot and storage. Been running perfectly ever since!
Excellent, as always straight forward instructions simplifying how to get this up and running. Thank you for sharing this process.
I was really waiting for this video!
Great to hear!
Thanks Chris set my pi 3 up all working, Merry Christmas and a Happy new year (hopefully!)
Great to hear!
This is exactly what I wanted for my first Pi project! Thank you!!!
Thanks, You are my personal Guru!!! Love each of your Videos. Thanks for your great Job.
Christopher. thanks much for this guide - it saved a lot of time, other than the speaking to ducks part. Cheers, mate!
Thanks for the updated video Chris.
No problem 👍
Excellent tutorial. Thanks Chris. I hope that you and your family manage to have a decent Christmas despite the latest lockdown rules.
Excellent video and very well explained.
Happy holidays and stay healty and safe !
Very well done! Always like your video with well explanation step by step! Keep it up!
I love the way You are ExplainingComputers 🤓 . Thanks for this video !
Happy Holidays. Thanks for your great videos.
My first Pi project and a perfect simple tutorial that worked first time for me, thanks!
_"You can always leaning some things talking to some ducks!"_ ... totally agree!! Thank you! ... Just a couple of observations... 1) I setup my router to allow about 180 IP addresses under DHCP (generally 20 to 199) and thus reserve 1 to 19 and 200 to 254 for various servers and services on my local network. Thus, in device setup, I change it from DHCP and give it a specific IP address ... saves looking it up sometimes, which is handy. 2) I would of *loved* to have seen a separate video, a part 1, of constructing the hardware ... you had some really interesting parts there and would of loved to have watched you put them together (one my personal reasons for watching your shows!) , then this video could of been the logical part 2 sequence follow up!
I love talking to ducks, they're so funny. Every time I talk to them they quack me up 🤣🤣🤣🤣
:)
We don't have ducks. :-( We have Canadian geese. Mean, aggressive demons that crap all over the sidewalks.
@@KameraShy they used to come through my city. eventually the parks department just poisoned them all
I just love your videos. Amazing style!
Three cheers for the ducks. Probably should put a loaf of bread on the list of required supplies for this project.
Quackers!
Missed opportunity to call the share "PiRShared" :D
Ya hey! :) Nice one.
Very timely! This will be my first Raspberry Pi project, and I've found a neat enclosure/hat kit I want to try. I've been looking at off-the-shelf NAS products, but can't afford any. So this should be interesting. Thanks for the info. :)
Good luck with your project.
5:50 Wait what? That's an option!? Why did nobody tell me I could increase the font size till now?
Oooo, thanks for this Chris, I am still happily using my pi3 setup I put together from your previous guide on it.
I find that using File Explorer app on my iPad the whole setup runs flawlessly for my use.
That said, I have been looking for an excuse to pickup a Pi4, and this may well be it 😃
Geez another Sunday and I learned something.
Another great video!
Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
❤️😆
you always have solution for everything. Great Job
Excellent video. I'll have to set this up. Thanks for the tutorial and especially the -y tip.
Another great job Chris!
Thanks!
Thank you for cutting through the documentation and getting to the heart of the procedure - as usual Chris.
I’m all set up now and very pleased with the result. This is taking the place of a backup NAS which just died on me.
Two questions come to mind though...
- How do I keep the OS up to date, if running headless?
- Is there an easy way to put the OS onto an SSD, rather than the micro-sd?
I’ve done a lot of searching but can’t seem to find anything relevant to this (headless) scenario.
Many thanks again
John R
Forgot to say that I previously updated firmware etc to get Pi booting from SSD.
Thanks for the videos throughout the year, Happy Christmas to you and yours.