Connecting my QNAP to Express?

[Statik]

Hey guys,

 

I'm curious of what the benefits from connecting my NAS to my VPN? I always use and run Express on my desktop/laptop, but have yet to connect my NAS to it. All I do is run a Plex server off my NAS, and do the odd backup locally to it via my local network. Is there a real benefit to this from a privacy and/or security standpoint?

[Electronics Wizardy]

VPN won't help if you rmostly accessing it locally. 

 

If you wanted to put services behind a vpn, you probalby want to host your own using something like wireguard or openvpn. Expressvpn, pia and simmilar are mostly for a pre setup vpn service, you woudln't want this here.

 

Putting something like plex behind a vpn makes it so you can't access it without a vpn, normally helping with security. Used a good amount for buiness networks where you don't want services public.