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Convert your 4TB USB HDD into a NAS in 5 minutes with Raspberry

6 min readApr 8, 2020

With a built-in WIFI module, true Gigabit Ethernet ports and multiple USB3 ports, the raspberry was turning to be a real candidate.

Pre-requisites

I’m using a Raspberry 4 Model B for this project, but feel free to use older versions but your mileage might vary. I will be using the raspberry in headless mode, so checkout my previous articles on how to setup the raspberry pi incase you haven’t.

The 5 Minute Raspberry Pi Setup Guide without External Display, Keyboard or Mouse

Setup your raspberry directly from your Windows, macOS or Linux machine without the need for any extra I/O devices.

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Also, if you want to know what other optimizations to work on after the installation, check out my article on 10 tweaks.

Top 10 Tweaks After Installing Rasbian

Here is a list of tweaks to make right after installing Rasbian on your Rasberry Pi.

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Hardware

Raspberry PI
Rasbian Buster
External USB HDD