<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 at 20:36, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div dir="ltr">I only run SSHFS (=NFS-like SSH using FUSE).<br>
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).</div>
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<p>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.</p>
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those running NAS,<br>
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I'm thinking about turning my current i3-4170 desktop into
NAS.<br>
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What protocols do you use?<br>
Do you run both "NFS" and "SMB" on it? Or, just "SMB"?<br>
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