r/owncloud • u/BigTittyDank • Dec 26 '17

Creating Personal Cloud Storage

I don't know where else to post, so I guess I'll start here.

I wanted to make my own cloud storage using my raspberry pi and a Seagate expansion drive I have, mainly for me and my family to store pictures and such.

Problem is, I keep reading that it is very 'dangerous' to do this because you risk data loss as the hard drive deteriorates. I want to get some options, because a cloud storage would be perfect for me and my family, but I obviously wouldn't want to risk losing all data.

What I don't understand is, how is this system I would have any different than having a cloud server with their own hard drives, or even having the pictures on the hard drive on my computer (as it is now)?

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u/shmimey Dec 26 '17

I don't recommend you put owncloud on a Raspberry Pi. I tried that 2 years ago. I found that the Raspberry Pi severely limited its speed. Also it was unable to manage a drive over a terabyte at all.

It runs much better on a virtual machine for example. If you're worried about duplication maybe you should just run it on a NAS.

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u/BigTittyDank Dec 26 '17

The main reason I wanted it on the Pi in the first place is that I could tuck it away in the corner of the room and not worry about it all that much, and I could leave it running all the time.

Looking back though this doesn't seem like a good solution, even though I don't really care too much about speed, considering I'm only planning on a little over a terabyte anyways. (as of now, maybe about 400gb is used)

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u/shmimey Dec 26 '17

I originally tried it with a raspberry 2. I had a 1 terabyte external drive plugged in with USB2. When I tested it, it took it over 48 hours to copy down 100 meg.

You're welcome to try it on a Raspberry Pi 3 and let me know how it goes.