Synology NAS: Turn an Old PC into a $2,000 Server

Learn how to turn a computer into your own top class Network Attached Storage server with freely available software.

Did you buy a new computer and you still have the older one lying around? In that case, you probably asked yourself what to do with that old PC or laptop that you really liked… As a matter of fact, it is still working very well but is just not powerfull enough anymore for your current needs. Well, do not trash or send it to that community in Burkina Faso yet: you can give it a new life by transforming it into a very powerful $2,000 server!

In this course, you will learn step by step how to use freely available software to do exactly that: take a 64-bit computer that is obsolete by today’s standards and turn it into an NAS (Network Attached Storage).

As of Wikipedia, here is their definition of a NAS:
“Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients. NAS is specialized for serving files either by its hardware, software, or configuration.”