Good afternoon,
I am someone who gets ideas as quickly as they can forget about them so before I forget about this solution I wanted to write it here and get some feedback from you guys if possible as I have nobody I can speak to about this. I built a pretty good PC back in 2013 and honestly speaking, it was too powerful for my uses as I pretty much only ever use it to study as I have a dedicated HTPC used as a Plex server and gaming PC. It is only now starting to show its age. I have always wanted a NAS to increase the amount of local storage and I was thinking about maybe converting the 9 year old PC into a NAS, hopefully keeping as many of the original parts to save money.
I was considering upgrading it with a whole new motherboard, ram, CPU and liked the look of the Ryzen 5950x but of course, with a new build comes a lot of costs and I am not the most knowledgeable when it comes to figuring out why I should go for certain parts so last time I just bought the most expensive things I could afford. Now I am at university and I also have an iPad Pro and a Macbook Pro M1 13". Now I have used Windows all my life and it is taking me some time to get used with the Apple ecosystem but I reckon I will be okay using it as my main device, at least throughout the next 3-4 years at university - only concern atm is somehow getting the Macbook to work with both of my screens and managing all the USB connected devices I have. I understand there are certain docks I can buy that would allow me to connect the laptop to ethernet, two monitors and stuff - I guess I can connect the other USB devices straight into my monitor as that also has USB ports. I might even consider buying the next Mac Mini if the price is decent as that would still work out significantly cheaper than building a new PC or getting docks for the laptop.
Do you reckon I could just convert my PC into a NAS as my main uses for my PC is a Plex server, a bit of coding and in the future, a little bit of video editing. The lower the power consumption on the NAS, the better. Those are things I could easily do on the Mac and then I could turn the PC into a NAS that houses several HDDs. I still love Windows though and probably will go back to it once I can afford an amazing build.
Many thanks!
I am someone who gets ideas as quickly as they can forget about them so before I forget about this solution I wanted to write it here and get some feedback from you guys if possible as I have nobody I can speak to about this. I built a pretty good PC back in 2013 and honestly speaking, it was too powerful for my uses as I pretty much only ever use it to study as I have a dedicated HTPC used as a Plex server and gaming PC. It is only now starting to show its age. I have always wanted a NAS to increase the amount of local storage and I was thinking about maybe converting the 9 year old PC into a NAS, hopefully keeping as many of the original parts to save money.
I was considering upgrading it with a whole new motherboard, ram, CPU and liked the look of the Ryzen 5950x but of course, with a new build comes a lot of costs and I am not the most knowledgeable when it comes to figuring out why I should go for certain parts so last time I just bought the most expensive things I could afford. Now I am at university and I also have an iPad Pro and a Macbook Pro M1 13". Now I have used Windows all my life and it is taking me some time to get used with the Apple ecosystem but I reckon I will be okay using it as my main device, at least throughout the next 3-4 years at university - only concern atm is somehow getting the Macbook to work with both of my screens and managing all the USB connected devices I have. I understand there are certain docks I can buy that would allow me to connect the laptop to ethernet, two monitors and stuff - I guess I can connect the other USB devices straight into my monitor as that also has USB ports. I might even consider buying the next Mac Mini if the price is decent as that would still work out significantly cheaper than building a new PC or getting docks for the laptop.
Do you reckon I could just convert my PC into a NAS as my main uses for my PC is a Plex server, a bit of coding and in the future, a little bit of video editing. The lower the power consumption on the NAS, the better. Those are things I could easily do on the Mac and then I could turn the PC into a NAS that houses several HDDs. I still love Windows though and probably will go back to it once I can afford an amazing build.
Many thanks!
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