• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    The first thing I did was throw drives into my PC set up samba and minidlna so my SO and I could stream video to the TV.

    But in an online discussion, someone made the argument that it needs to be a dedicated machine with unattended updates with providing storage as its only purpose or something to that effect. That seems overly limiting to me, but that seemed like a pretty common sentiment.

    Surely there’s a line somewhere between someone making a share on their PC or attaching a USB drive to their router and a commercial NAS device. I don’t know where that line is, so I tend to be pretty conservative and assume a NAS device is dedicated to the purpose, whether DIY or purchased, but if it runs a bunch of other services, now it’s a “server” and not a NAS.

    That’s why I’m suggesting the language here be more precise.