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Laptop NAS?

JakeTheDev
By JakeTheDev
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Hey there Jake :) Welcome to the community! 
 
I'd first check if the laptop covers the hardware requirements of the OS that you are going to use. The simplest way to use it as a NAS is to map and/or share your folders and your external drives on the network so they can be accessible from anyone. 
Have in mind that changing the OS would most probably require you to format your internal drive in order to be used. FreeNAS uses ZFS files system, for example. 
 
You shouldn't have problems sharing external drives on the network, though. :) 
 
You can consider a standalone NAs solution. Post back if you want me to offer some options. :)
 
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Yes ... but storage size going to be small, unless you attach some hard drive but why not. 

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The laptop would work fine as a NAS but you are somewhat limited in terms of storage expansion.

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I have some Seagate Enterprise drives, 4 TB I think...

Well you need some dock/enclosure for them to work over USB. 

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Hey there Jake :) Welcome to the community! 
 
I'd first check if the laptop covers the hardware requirements of the OS that you are going to use. The simplest way to use it as a NAS is to map and/or share your folders and your external drives on the network so they can be accessible from anyone. 
Have in mind that changing the OS would most probably require you to format your internal drive in order to be used. FreeNAS uses ZFS files system, for example. 
 
You shouldn't have problems sharing external drives on the network, though. :) 
 
You can consider a standalone NAs solution. Post back if you want me to offer some options. :)
 
Captain_WD.

If this helped you, like and choose it as best answer - you might help someone else with the same issue. ^_^
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Yes, you can, but why? But if you really want to do it with FreeNAS, you have to use ethernet and I recommend atleast 8GB of ECC memory (does ECC memory even exist for laptops?)

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