Use Open Media Vault to Run Your NAS
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IN OUR AUGUST ISSUE, we built a mini NAS box using mostly scavenged parts. We also skimmed over setting up Volker Theile’s OpenMediaVault (OMV), a Debian-based Linux distro that takes the pain out of configuring and maintaining such things. For the “Build It” feature, we didn’t cover this software side of things in much depth, so in these two pages, we’ll try to remedy that.
Naturally, we assume you already have suitable hardware—basically any PC, but ideally something with one or more large drives in it. We’ll cover setting up a RAID array, which will cover you in case one (or more if you opt for extra redundancy) of your drives fail. Remember,
