Setting up a old laptop as a NAS

I go over how I turned a old laptop into a basic NAS. I also go over the advantages and disadvantages of using a laptop as a NAS.

I know the focus had some issues, working on improving the filming in future videos.

[John.Gianno]

never thought I'd see Legolas teaching me how to set up a NAS

[seanmichael]

Incredible tutorial. You covered everything I wanted to know, and even have a great justification for using Windows vs other OS's that are often recommended by advanced users that are building much more advanced setups than the average user. Thank you for your contribution

[replica]

I've been using an older Thinkpad x260 as a NAS for a few years. It's been a great setup. Small footprint, quiet and idles at only 6.5W with two self powered USB 3.0 HDDs attached. I use Linux with ZFS and access everything over ssh/sshfs.

[k.b.tidwell]

Thanks for the video. Subbed. I've wanted to set up a home cloud for literally years, but couldn't divert funds for a full-on commercial setup. Since I have some old laptops around this seems like a great way to get started.

[Peterowsky]

I've been using an x220 as my daily driver for a couple of years now. It's still Nominally worth as much as When I purchased it 8 years ago.
To say I consider people who can play with MUCH newer hardware at little to NO cost ridiculously spoiled is a massive understatement.

[tamparockout]

Very helpful

I setup an old laptop with an old Nvidia gcard to be my Plex server. Grabbed a cheap external HDD/SDD bay and the laptop CPU/gpu and 16gb ram made it so much better at transcoding than a small 2 bay Synology I was using.

Switched the Synology to become my file data storage and backup so now everythings running great.

[stevestephens]

You should also mention that a laptop with a good battery is immune to short power outages.

[lexshizumdot]

Super interesting. I'm considering learning how to set up a Nas and your video is very helpful

[emanueltwr]

Cousin of mine gave ma his old laptop with a broken screen and your video has been very insightful (others suggested to run 3rd party apps like Plex but I was looking for ways to avoid that and your video will help). Thank you.

[eg]

Great job... Thanks for taking the time to show those steps. Keep up the good work.

[lawallace]

Excellent video. You have a great site!

[spaceKadz]

I'm using an old ByteSpeed laptop from a school my friend gave me. It has Windows 7 and should be good enough for my needs.

[vivektelang]

Great video, thanks for making it!! You mentioned that you would talk about how to limit the filesystem privileges, but then I didn't see anything on it. Did I miss it?

[SanjayKapoorDelhi]

Wonderfully explained. Thank you so much !!

[SametKaratas-dbxu]

2:55 I'm also using Windows Server 2022 on an old laptop for the host discord bot with 24/7 hours

[coolguy_mcgee]

Thanks for the tutorial, really helped me set up my NAS, I appreciate it!

[dnharrij]

Great video. Exactly what I was looking for.

[yerachmielb]

Now how would I set this up if I wanted remote access? (I kind of want to use this to replace my cloud subscription.)

[AndieGuess]

Very nice, just followed your advice and bam got a NAS. I have an external drive connected to the NAS laptop. I am wondering how to see that on my client PC

[eoghainohara]

Great video! Thanks for putting it together.