This hard drive 1TB from Toshiba
Another 1TB hard drive from Toshiba
Next a Seagate laptop hard drive 500GB
This is a solid state drive with a capacity of only 60GB
We will install the operating system on this solid state drive
Another laptop hard drive, with a capacity of 250G from Hitachi
So there are 5 hard drives in all, I will divide them into 3 different groups
Solid state drive for operating system installation
3 hard drives used to store data
Toshiba 1TB hard drive has the largest capacity for data backup, also known as parity hard drive
Next you use a USB stick with at least 2GB capacity to create the installation operating system
Here I am using an 8GB USB stick
The operating system used in this video is OpenMediaVault
You can use the old or new version, the same way
In this video I use version 6.0, the latest at the moment
Just like the previous videos I used Rufus to create the OpenMediaVault installer
Rufus, a compact tool, free and no installation required
Just open Rufus, select the USB stick, then browse to the OpenMediaVault iso file
Rufus will erase all data on the USB stick, then create the OpenMediaVault installer for you
It takes about 5 minutes to complete
You safely remove the USB stick to avoid damage to the installer
Then you plug the USB stick into the target computer and start installing OpenMediaVault
You add all the hard drives to the target computer
In this video I add 5 hard drives to the target computer
The hard drives I introduced to you at the beginning of the video
After plugging in the USB stick and adding the hard drives, you start the computer and access the BIOS
I'm using an Asus motherboard so when I start the computer I keep pressing the Delete key
Our goal is to set up the computer to boot from the OpenMediaVault installer
SRT USB 1100
Save the settings and restart the computer
The computer will boot from the OpenMediaVault installer
Set language I choose English
Set the server name the default name of the server is openmediavault
Domain name choose default setting
Next you are asked to create a password for the root admin account
This password will be used in the next step, so you should write it down, especially with a password that is difficult to remember
Because the computer has a lot of hard drives you have to choose which hard drive to install the operating system
Here are 5 hard drives and a USB stick
As mentioned at the beginning of the video, I will be installing the operating system on a 60GB Seagate solid state drive
Leave the default and press enter
Skip proxy settings and choose continue
The installation is complete you can remove the USB stick and restart the computer
When starting your computer make sure to boot from the solid-state drive
Here the computer is set up to boot from the Seagate 60G solid state drive
Save the settings and start the computer
The computer boots the OpenMediaVault operating system for the first time
Wait for a while for the computer to boot up successfully
On this screen you will know the ip address of the computer
Username is admin default password is openmediavault
On another computer on the local network, I open any web browser and enter the ip address of the NAS server
10.11.32.226
Username is admin
Default password is openmediavault
First you set up the dashboard
Like here I choose to show all information like CPU, RAM, Network, Hard Drives and many more
Storages Disks
You first initialize all the hard drives, except the hard drive where the operating system is installed
Here I will re-initialize the hard drives sda sdb sdc sdd
The first hard drive is Toshiba 1TB
You select the hard drive and click Wipe
Choose the quick method
Next is the Hitachi 250GB hard drive
You select the hard drive and click Wipe
Choose the quick method
Next is the 500GB Seagate hard drive
Choose the quick method
The last hard drive is a Toshiba 1TB
You do not perform this step with a 60GB Seagate solid-state drive
After initializing the hard drives, you create a system file for the hard drives
Storage File Systems Create
Here are 4 hard drives that need to be created with system files
You create system files for all 4 hard drives one by one
Default system file is ext4
You just need to select the hard drives one by one and click Save
Next, you Mount those hard drives
For each hard drive you leave a comment, it will be easier for you to configure Snapraid in the next step
Here sda hard drive is data1
sdb is data2
sdc is data3
And sdd is parity
To combine hard drives with different capacities we use mergerfs
To backup data with parity hard drive we use snapraid
To install snapraid and mergerfs on OpenMediaVault you need to install omv extra
To install omv extra you access the OpenMediaVault server using ssh
You open a Windows command prompt and enter ssh root @ ip address
You enter the password set up when installing the OpenMediaVault operating system, as in the previous step I set the password to 123
To install omv extra you just copy and paste the command as above
It will take about 30 seconds to complete the installation
That's it the installation of omv extras completed
Next, refresh the OpenMediaVault management page and you will see omv extra in the System menu
After installing omv extra we will install snapraid
System plugins
Type snapraid in the search box
Select snapraid and install
After the installation is complete you will find Snapraid in the Services menu
Next I installed mergerfs to combine different hard drives into one
System plugins
Enter mergerfs in the search box
Select mergerfs and install
After installing mergerfs you will find mergerfs in the Storage menu
Next we set up Snapraid
Service Snapraid Disks Create
With these 4 hard drives will be divided into 2 groups
With 3 hard drives commented as data, we will configure Content and Data
Three hard drives including a Toshiba 1TB hard drive, a Hitachi 250G hard drive and a Segate 500GB hard drive
The hard drive is commented as parity, we will configure it as Parity
Please note that the Parity hard drive must have a capacity greater than or equal to any other hard drive
And our parity hard drive here has a capacity of 1TB
With Snapraid I have 3 hard drives with the same configuration, 1 hard drive configured as parity
After completing Snapraid configuration, I use mergerfs to combine different sized hard drives into one
Storage mergerfs Create
I named it pool1
Then select all 3 hard drives configured as data
I choose the hard drives data1 data2 and data3
Save the configuration, very simple, right?
And this is the result you get, 3 hard drives have been combined into one with a capacity of 1.56TB
Next we set up shared folders so that everyone can upload and download data
You create a new user
Users users create
I create a new user netvn , password is 123
Next create a new shared folder
Storage Shared Folders
Name the shared folder, I named it Test
Next select pool1 which was just created from the previous step by mergerfs pool1 has a capacity of 1.56TB pooled from 3 different hard drives
If adding a hard drive, you can add a new hard drive here to get more space
Next, you allow the netvn account to have read and write permissions with the Test folder
To share folders for Windows computers you need to enable the SMB service
Services SMB
Then enable the SMB service
Next you add the newly created Test folder to the SMB service
Thus, the basic configuration steps are completed
Now on my Windows computer I access the shared folder
I type run in the Windows search box
To access the shared folder enter \\ip address
Username is netvn, password is 123
To easily access the shared folder of the NAS server, we set up map network drives
\\ip address\shared folder name
Enter an account if required
To check if my netvn account has read and write permission to the Test folder, I upload some data
Upload successful
Let's check the used space on the hard drives
So I uploaded about 1GB of data
Next I recommend you to set up a static ip address for the NAS server
Network interfaces
Edit
Here you set up a static ip address that matches the range of ip addresses you are using
With this NAS server I set the static ip to 10.11.32.226
Next we schedule data backup for snapraid
System scheduled tasks
You have a lot of customizations to set up the schedule time
Here I set up daily backup
The sync command is snapraid sync
So your data will be synced daily
Alternatively you can sync manually
Everything OK
When checking the usage capacity of the Parity hard drive, there will be a change
So I've introduced how to build a NAS server from different sized hard drives
Also your data will be automatically backed up daily
But that way your data will not be synchronized in real time
With OpenMediaVault you can use a lot of utilities
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