Whether or not you should do this is a different matter altogether. Be sure to back everything up on your NAS and USB drive before doing anything. Even if you don't plan to format the drive ...

Another medium that can be used to expand your NAS's capacity is the trusty USB drive. Many prebuilt turnkey NAS enclosures have a few USB ports available, but here are some reasons why you ...

Asustor Lockerstor 4 Gen 3 NAS review: more power and LAN ports than other 4-bay NAS, but it comes at a high price ...

An example of a common arrangement: A NAS drive will have one USB 2.0 port that is usually used for printer sharing, and a USB 3.0 port that can be used for external storage.

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While not much larger than the CM4 itself, the NAS board breaks out the board’s PCIe, Ethernet, HDMI, and USB. There’s also a header for I2C, used primarily for the OLED display but naturally ...

But it’s also a shame that he didn’t get more than two years before some of the parts he used in the original NAS became unobtainium. The main issue was that the integrated USB hub he used for ...