I turned an old laptop into a NAS, here's what I learned.

Introduction About a month ago, I came across a couple of old laptops just gathering dust in my basement. I took a look at them and, while I decided they were absolutely not in conditions to run windows, I figured they were worth rescuing. In this post I will detail my journey to turn one of them into a truly useful NAS system for me and my family members, the problems I came across, the solutions I reached, and the lessons I learned along the way. What even is a NAS A NAS, in it's most basic form, is just a relatively simple computer that does two things: Stores a lot of data. Makes that data available to the network. So in simple terms, it's just an external HardDrive you can access from any PC as long as you are in the same network, pretty handy, no? This may or may not sound exiting to you depending on who you are, but here is where it gets interesting: Since a NAS is a computer, it can also run certain software that allows it to do much more than a simple HDD would, there even is