Making your own DIY network memory device is one in every of the initial use-cases for the Raspberry Pi, it's however still one in every of the most effective. Get yourself a handful of 'dumb' external exhausting drives, and with slightly of IT creativeness, presto: you have saved yourself a handful of hundred quid on a fashionable NAS appliance.

This is an identical method to fixing the Raspberry Pi as a media server mistreatment code like Plex, however while not limiting it to things like movies and television shows. This setup permits you to require backups of your machine, and you'll be able to even use the Raspberry Pi as a makeshift machine capsule if you are a mack user.