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This theme of having overkill hardware for the main purpose and using leftover resources for other tasks is happening on both routers and NAS. Many routers use
by ericfrederich 9y ago
This theme of having overkill hardware for the main purpose and using leftover resources for other tasks is happening on both routers and NAS.
Many routers use their extra resources to act like a NAS.
You buy a NAS (Synology/QNAP) or build your own (unRAID) with extra resources and use it for desktop computing (even Gaming w/ unRAID GPU passthrough), Plex Media Server, OwnCloud, GitLab hosting, etc, etc.
... so if both routers and NAS are trying to do the same thing (utilize extra resources), at what point will these converge? Will something like unRAID integrate OpenWRT as a first class citizen and have its focus be both NAS and Networking?... or Synology/QNAP devices try to be routers.