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Welcome to Do It Yourself – Network Attached Storage! DIY NAS has news, content, reviews and help for those rolling their own network attached storage devices. Whether it is a Linux box holding dozens of hard drives, a Mac Mini stacked on a mountain of firewire devices, or a Linksys NSLU2 with a USB flash drive, DIY NAS has information about it.
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I just finished building my network attached storage system. It gives me 1.1TB of storage accessible through the network or FTP over the ‘net. It cost me $800 plus a few old components I already had lying around. I created a worklog web page for it for anyone looking to create something similar.
Link: http://diynas.wetpaint.com/
Great site, I’ve added it to the “Best Guides” section.
Hi,
I built a nas unit myself and created a page with all the informacion:
http://www.perfectnas.com
Hope it can be of help to anyone.
Santi,
he visto tu “perfectNas”.. más o menos el precio de los componentes?.. por hacerse una idea.. y porque ubuntu mini y no freenas?.. merci.
dani.
I built simple NAS for home usage. Description is available here:
http://mzepanonline.blogspot.com/2012/11/diy-simple-nas-on-budget.html
Hi – We have a crowdsoucring campaign (for a community goal) running for a combined StorageHypervisor. “The Firmbox” with datacenter/cloud features.
http://igg.me/firmbox
I’ve developed a BTRFS and Linux powered NAS solution called Rockstor. It’s Free and opensource, is at version 3.x, runs on commodity hardware and has active development to support new features.
Check us out — http://rockstor.com/