Hello.dear experts.
Running a single-board-computer as a NAS at home - which system to use?
I've been musing bout the question of using a single-board-computer (sbc). I might be able to put a single board computer to good use around the home, and so far I'm predicting I'm going to need at least half a dozen of them! Sounds like a few fun weekends ahead...
Does anyone know if there is the ability/opportunity to use a single board computer to run a small NAS operating system (and connect it up to a few USB hard drives)? Or is this not a good use-case, perhaps because a SATA connection is needed?
The other idea I had was to run samba Server on a single board computer as a back-end (and of course use another single board computer for a front-end) - does anyone know if that would be possible?
some musings: As far as the front-end, purely from a speed POV and not hardware/driver capabilities POV - the network speed will likely might be the bottleneck. But speed does not matter - i do not need a high-speed system here.