There is a Raspberry Pi 3 out there which is much faster than version 1 and 2. While latest two are faster than first model, I thought it would be great to give some purpose to first Raspberry Pi model B. We share several computers around the house and sometimes need simple file storage solution to make backups, share and store. Rasperry Pi model B is sufficient for simple Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution. It doesn’t need much processing power to manage drive. And there is also an option to have torrent client running 24/7. Other benefits of using Raspberry Pi is low power. Lets go through all steps on how to set up Network Attached Storage on this Raspberry Pi. You can go with several different solutions on setting up NAS. You could go with cloud solution like Owncloud which is similar to Dropbox. This might be convenient in many ways, but I would like to have ability to use drive as portable media when needed. In that case I am going to stick with SAMBA server. As usually we are going to set up things via SSH in command line. And the first thing you should do is …
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