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Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 28 points 10 months ago (5 children)

And as usual everyone is saying NAS, but talking about servers with a built in NAS.

I'm not saying you can't run your services on the same machine as your NAS, I'm just confused why every time there's a conversation about NASs it's always about what software it can run.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    At this point you're just fighting semantics. Even a commercial NAS is reliant on the software too, like with Synology. They run the disk management but also can run Docker and VMs with their built-in hypervisor.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The way I see it, a box of drives still needs something to connect it to your network.

    And that something that can only do a basic connection costs only a little less than something that can run a bunch of other stuff too.

    You can see why it all gets bundled together.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    For me it's not about what else I can run on it. I want my services separated from my storage devices. If I throw everything into one physical machine it takes everything down if something goes wrong. It's also harder to do upgrades without needing to replace entire machines

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