Create a cloud using NextCloud, Raspberry Pi, and a USB HDD from scratch

Chelaru Adrian
8 min readMar 9, 2022

I’ll show you how to create a cloud for your files that you can keep running at a small cost of energy becaus of the low consumption of the Raspberry Pi board which is below 0.120 kWh / day, which translates in under 0.05 USD / day and that’s a maximal value.

— Updated for 2024 —

This tutorial is for users who like from-scratch setup 🤘.

Nextcloud 28 running on the Raspberry Pi

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Chelaru Adrian

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