A Quick and Easy NAS Setup 2021
Channel: Mac Geek Gab
Date: 11/06/2021

In this mini-episode from Episode 874, listener Michael discusses his Quick and Dirty NAS Set-Up. Listen here and subscribe to our channel for more!

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 I think it's time to let Michael share his thoughts about how to create a quick and dirty network attached storage solution maybe it's just quick i don't think it's all that dirty Michael calling from Long Beach California." I have a quick cool stuff found quick tip, you've discussed it before to some degree but i've never heard it arranged this way and it's a tip for people who are out there thinking about getting a NAS device for their home you know those are not inexpensive in terms of the price obviously but what i have is set up kind of a quick and dirty version I have a tp-link router that has you know a usb port that allows you to attach usb storage which many routers today do if not all
i've got like a small one terabyte western digital usb notebook drive hooked up to that that has all of my videos that i have ripped or whatever um attached to the drive so it's available to anything on my network I have two Roku TVs one in my living room a larger screen connected to a home theater and then one in my office as well and through a combination of because i'm a geek i also have amazon a fire tv in the living room and a fire tv stick in my office and you know via the Roku media player app um i can you know go in select the drive you know a couple clicks and I'm playing with stuff on the tvs on the fire tv uh front i found that vlc has an app that works very well uh you can click on it click on the shared media and there you're watching stuff with the nas it doesn't matter where you are I can do it on my laptop as well you know connect to the drive i can do it on my phone uh or a tablet um whether it's an iPhone or not uh via the dlc app and it's a kind of a quick and dirty nas that's you know probably only about a hundred and thirty dollars all told between the router and the uh and the usb drive so just a quick suggestion to everybody out there if they want to be able to get into that
nas type game and um not have to spend you know several hundred dollars to uh to get a nas device yes thank you yeah you're welcome thank you for that that's i like that