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I built a NAS from an old laptop—here's what Linux taught me the hard way

I recently repurposed an old laptop I had lying around into my first makeshift NAS by adding a hard drive and USB-C hub to it. It initially started mostly as a curiosity, mostly to see what it’s like ...
Ars Technica

Cost Effective Home Network Attached Storage - Roll Your Own or Pre-made All in One (Synology, QNAP, Etc.)?

At present, my home network has a somewhat janky NAS consisting of 2, 1 TB USB 3.0 HDs hanging off an ARM router running FreshTomato. While this has worked for a number of years, I'm thinking of ...
PCMag

Don't Toss Your Old PC: 21 Ways to Give Your Device New Life

Got an ancient laptop or desktop lying around? Here's how to transform an old PC into an NAS, experiment with a new OS, build ...