[kwlug-disc] NAS -- what protocol?

[CrankyOldBugger]

I'm in the process of building a new NAS to replace my fourteen year old
Synology NAS.  I'm still kicking tires on what way to go, but I think I
might end up taking one of my Raspberry Pi 5 systems and adding a
four-drive bay to it over USB.  Not the fastest solution, but I really just
need something that can feed videos to the TV, or hold system backups, that
sort of thing.

There are a lot of options online as to how to configure the NAS, raspi or
not, so there's still more tire kicking to do.

If I ever do get the time to put this thing together, I'll let you guys
know what I ended up doing.  But don't expect anything soon....



On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 at 20:36, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

>
> I only run SSHFS (=NFS-like SSH using FUSE).
> It's installed by default on many Linux distributions (e.g., Fedora) and
> transfers faster than SMB, about as fast as NFS, but a tad slower than SFTP
> (e.g., with vsftpd).
>
> I have SSH, hence SFTP, and watch over 1Gb network, in VLC, DVD folders,
> and video files like mp4 and webm  from sftp folder that is a bookmarked
> folder in Nemo (Linux Mint file browsing app). It was zero install beyond
> ssh.
>
> To those running NAS,
>>
>> I'm thinking about turning my current i3-4170 desktop into NAS.
>>
>> What protocols do you use?
>> Do you run both "NFS" and "SMB" on it?  Or, just "SMB"?
>>
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