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EasyNAS

A turnkey NAS appliance: dedicated operating system, web management, and the storage power of Btrfs.

EasyNAS turns a spare machine — an old PC, a Raspberry Pi, an ARM NAS board, or a VM — into a fully managed network storage server. You install one image; everything else happens in the browser.

How it works

EasyNAS is an appliance, not an application. The image ships a complete, purpose-built operating system (based on openSUSE Tumbleweed) with the EasyNAS management stack on top:

  • Web UI on https://<your-nas>:1443 — dashboard, storage, sharing, users, updates
  • Console menu on the attached display — password reset, network restart, restart/shutdown
  • Btrfs storage — RAID profiles, compression, snapshots, online device management
  • Add-on system — sharing protocols and services installed on demand from the EasyNAS repository
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    A[Clients<br/>SMB / NFS / SSH ...] --> B[EasyNAS appliance]
    B --> C[(Btrfs storage pools)]
    B -. manage .-> D[Web UI :1443]

Feature highlights

  • Dashboard — CPU, memory, and per-filesystem usage at a glance; disk and SMART health
  • Filesystems & volumes — create Btrfs pools across disks, subvolumes, snapshots
  • Sharing — NFS, Samba, SSH out of the box; FTP, AFP, iSCSI, DLNA and more as add-ons
  • Users & groups — manage access for all sharing protocols in one place
  • Updates — one-click updates from the EasyNAS package repository
  • Persistent settings — configuration lives on its own partition, separate from the OS

Where to go next

I want to… Read
Check my hardware is supported Supported hardware
Install EasyNAS Installation
Set up my first share Getting started
Understand storage concepts Storage
Add protocols and services Add-ons