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Re: Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer?

From Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer?
Date 2022-04-28 13:10 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 05:42:38AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
>All I want is a small PC able to host multiple drives for redundant
>storage. Can a typical NAS appliance be used for that?

I believe popular NAS appliances by manufacturers such as Synology can
either be "rooted" so you can run your own stuff on them, or support
running applications via containers on top.

Turning the question inside-out, a regular computer can be used as a
NAS.

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Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-04-28 12:50 +0200
  Re: Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-04-28 13:10 +0200
    Re: Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-04-28 13:40 +0200
  Re: Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-04-28 13:30 +0200
    Re: Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-04-28 13:40 +0200
  Re: Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer? Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-04-28 14:10 +0200
  Re: Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer? basti <basti@unix-solution.de> - 2022-04-28 14:10 +0200
  Re: Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-04-28 15:40 +0200
  Re: Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-04-28 17:20 +0200
  Re: Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer? Greg <pld@sojka.co> - 2022-04-28 17:50 +0200

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