I gave my NAS actual jobs beyond storage, and it automated half my PC maintenance
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A personal account of transforming a Synology NAS from a simple file storage device into a always-on secondary computer. By running services like Plex, Immich, and other productivity tools via Docker, the author offloaded background tasks from their main PC. The result is a reliable, low-power infrastructure hub that stays accessible remotely, freeing the primary computer from running persistent services and reducing its maintenance burden.
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My NAS took over the critical but boring tasksMoving my productivity stack to the NAS184 Impressions