Turn caseless laptop into under the desk steam nas?

[Ryzenuser19]

i have a laptop mobo that i can boot up easily and boot from a usb3 drive leaving the 3tb hdd untouched. it has gigabit ethernet and its a decent intel one and the cpu is a i5 3360m. is this good enough to run it as a nas connected directly to my switch that also connects to my 3 pcs and my living room pc. the idea is that because i bought a few copies of cod and some steam games and my cousin just moved in after almost being homeless i figured theres 5 of us here now why not game together.

[Windows7ge]

I assume the goal here is a Steam Cache. Assuming the Steam Cache software doesn't mind using a USB device for storage it should suffice. You will hit multiple bottlenecks if all of you try to access the cache at once but otherwise it should work.

[Ryzenuser19]

2 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

I assume the goal here is a Steam Cache. Assuming the Steam Cache software doesn't mind using a USB device for storage it should suffice. You will hit multiple bottlenecks if all of you try to access the cache at once but otherwise it should work.

i have a 3tb hdd to use for the game storage and i was thinking a shared library so non of the games have to be on any of the pc's actual storage like use it a shared G drive full of the shared steam games, assuming that steam doesnt expect us to load from a seperated library even though the games have all been bought on the 3 accounts.

[Windows7ge]

9 hours ago, Ryzenuser19 said:

i have a 3tb hdd to use for the game storage and i was thinking a shared library so non of the games have to be on any of the pc's actual storage like use it a shared G drive full of the shared steam games, assuming that steam doesnt expect us to load from a seperated library even though the games have all been bought on the 3 accounts.

This won't work well at all. The overhead of the networking protocols is too high for any large game. If it worked the experience would be terrible. You're much better off keeping it on local storage. If you want to setup a Steam Cache so everyone can download the games faster then that's an option.