The Cheapest NAS

• arm-nas

  1 98 7.1 Shell

  Arm NAS configuration with ZFS.

  Any of the latest generation Arm SBCs is actually pretty adequate for NAS purposes, especially if that's all you want to run on it.

  If you get a Pi 4 or Pi 5, or one of the Rockchip boards with RK3566 or RK3588 (the latter is much more pricey, but can get gigabit-plus speeds), you can either attach a USB hard drive or SSD, or with most of them now you could add on an M.2 drive or an adapter for SATA hard drives/SSDs, and even do RAID over 1 Gbps or sometimes 2.5 Gbps with no issue.

  Some people choose to run OpenMediaVault (which is fine), though I have my NASes set up using Ansible + ZFS running on bare Debian, as it's simpler for me to manage that way: https://github.com/geerlingguy/arm-nas

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ZeroTier

  345 13,821 8.4 C++

  A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

  

  Tailscale uses Go https://tailscale.com/security#tailscale-is-written-in-go which might explain the larger sizes.

  A cursory look through https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne shows more C++ and some Rust. Not sure how much static linking is involved here.

• sshfs

  60 4,618 3.7 C

  Discontinued A network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers

  

  I use sshfs. If you can login via ssh then you can mount the remote server through ssh as a local drive.

  https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs

  For added security I limit my home ssh access to a handful of trusted IPs including my cloud VM. Then I set up an ssh tunnel from my hotel through the cloud VM to home. The cloud VM never sees my password / key

• rclone

  965 44,880 9.8 Go

  "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files

  

  Its worth keeping this (from their readme) in mind though:

  > However, at present SSHFS does not have any active, regular contributors, and there are a number of known issues (see the bugtracker).

  Not that it is unusable or anything, it is still in widespread use, but I'd guess many assume it to be part of openssh and maintained with it, when it isn't.

  An interesting alternative might be https://rclone.org/, which can speak SFTP and can mount all (of the many) protocols it speaks.

• Greyhole

  10 258 5.8 PHP

  Greyhole uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives, and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store.

• SaaSHub

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