International Journal of Mathematics And Computer Research

Abstract

Technology today is becoming increasingly mobile. It is now possible to all the work, which would require a large desktop computer a few years back, on a handheld tablet or a mobile phone. Today most people do not possess just one such device but a multiple devices. An individual may own laptops, tablets, cellular phones, desktops, any combination of such devices. Also the widespread popularity of wireless internet connections (wi-fi or mobile internet) has ensured that all these devices are connected to the „World Wide Web‟ almost all the time. It is essential for the users to be able to share and synchronize data and files between these devices and the simplest way is to have a common repository of files on a server that can be accessed through the web. Existing services charge huge amounts for large amounts of storage and also the files are stored on servers that the user does not directly control and can be accessed by the company also making privacy and security matters of concern. This paper details the development of a low cost, personalized, network attached storage that will be accessible over the internet. The low cost Raspberry Pi board will be used as the hardware on which the server is hosted. The linux based Raspbian OS was used on the Raspberry Pi. The http server was implemented in server side javascript using node.js. The one time cost of the setup along with minimal recurring charges makes this solution feasible.