Can I turn my HTC Droid Incredible into a NAS controller?

[Hovia]

Can I turn my HTC Droid Incredible into a NAS controller.

I was thinking about making my own NAS from scratch with some tinkering.
It doesn't have to be pretty.. just has to work.

I have
An HTC droid no longer on a cellular contract.
A droid power cable
A standard WD Sata HDD
A home Wifi network
A box full of other old computer stuff.

So what I want to know is, can I turn the droid into a NAS controller?

Maybe root it ( no experience in this), install a linux distro (again no
experience) or something, buy some powered usb adapter cable?

 

[Rukbat]

Re: Can I turn my HTC Droid Incredible into a NAS controller.

All you need is to replace Android with NAS firmware. (FreeNAS is Linux-based, but you'd have to compile it for an ARM CPU. And figure out a way to load it into the phone. A plain bare box desktop with a few GB of RAM would probably be pretty cheap, or you could even find an old two core duo ready to go for a few bucks, and you could just install FreeNAS on it. Much simpler, and it's made to be hit constantly - a cellphone isn't.)

Assuming your router doesn't have a USB connector on the back. If it does, plug the NAS drive (an external drive or an internal drive in a $20 USB box) into it. The router has the NAS firmware in it. The drive will show up as a network drive.