Why I always choose a NAS over external drives
External drives are great for stashing data and moving between systems, but they're cumbersome. That's where a NAS takes over and what I always use.
You have tons of work files on your laptop, your family photo archive on an old iPad, videos piling up on your phone — and not to forget the tens of thumb drives and external hard drives scattered all over the house. Even though external drives are simple to use and affordable enough to stock up on, they ironically start becoming an inconvenience. Manually backing up your data to these drives turns into a chore pretty quickly, and sharing files is anything but easy.
