Here’s a little secret: Building your own NAS and Cloud Storage server is not only a lot cheaper than big-brand NAS products, they’re also vastly more powerful.
Network Attached Storage and even Cloud Storage servers are simply a stack of applications that run on standard PC hardware. The branded NAS manufacturers squeeze these applications into specialized low-cost, low-power products. Yet, they often cost a lot of money for what they really are underneath: tiny single board computers with tiny ARM processors and tiny amounts of RAM.
Any mainstream CPU with 8GB of RAM or more would be vastly more capable than these simple NAS devices; capable of running Cloud Servers like Nextcloud, media servers like Jellyfin/Plex, etc.
The trick, of course, is that those nicely packaged products take advantage of the fact that most people don’t have the skills or interest in building their own servers.
Now you can have the best of both worlds with our pre-built storage/Cloud servers – cheap and powerful, and ready to go out of the box. Already have an old computer lying around? Just let us use that and save even more!
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