Published May 8, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar.

I typically rely on my Network-Attached Storage rig to create backups, sync random projects via network shares, and archive ripped media files. However, I also use it to self-host essential services that I wouldn’t want to run on my experimental workstations. But there are times when I whip up some fun experiments with my NAS, especially storage-hungry projects that aren’t risky enough to bring my storage server down.

Take storing Steam games on my NAS, for example.…