Need help exposing an external HardDrive connected to my home server
to other computers
reddit / selfhosted

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CaLlMeFaP · 2023-10-13 05:57

Hi  Guys! Very Very new to the world of self hosting. I recently got
an old  pc that I have been using for some jellyfin, immich related
tasks. I  found some old external hard drives in great condition and
was wondering  if anyone knew a way I could access these external HDDs
on other  devices outside the network. I mainly want to periodically
store files  from other devices on this drive, without having to carry
it around. Any  help is appreciated! Thank you! :)

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thekrautboy · 2023-10-13 06:35

Run any kind of fileserver service and share the drives?

Look through the list from the subreddit sidebar:
https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted or simply search this
sub.

Filebrowser is popular for example, or SFTPGo. Or install Cockpit with
filesharing addons and you can create simple SMB/NFS shares.

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TBT_TBT · 2023-10-13 08:39

The answer to 50% of posts is Tailscale. No idea why not everybody
reading here already knows it exists.

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thekrautboy · 2023-10-13 13:10

This sub is basically

* 40% "use nextcloud"

* 30% "use cloudflare"

* 20% "use tailscale"

and then actually 10% of the rest.

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TBT_TBT · 2023-10-13 14:29

But in this case - once again - Tailscale is the correct answer...

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thekrautboy · 2023-10-13 14:30

Oh im not against Tailscale in this case, not sure about it being
"the" correct answer, its a correct answer :)

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CaLlMeFaP · 2023-10-13 18:39

Thanks I set up tailscale and set up a NFS drive that’s shared over my
tailscale IP. This is exactly what I wanted. Thank you again. Although
the copying speeds are REALLY slow, anyway I could make it faster? Or
do anything different ?

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TBT_TBT · 2023-10-13 21:40

Do you copy locally or remote? If you copy remote, your internet
upload is your limit.

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CaLlMeFaP · 2023-10-14 00:08

Remotely. It’s just tooo slow. Thanks a lot.

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TBT_TBT · 2023-10-14 09:39

Well, ofc then the data needs to go through your internet provider
upload. And that is mostly way less than download. If you can get a
faster tariff, there is most of the time also more upload included.