> I’m curious about the use case for plugging one external drive into multiple computers in 2022, when storage is super cheap and networking is super fast. I h

> I’m curious about the use case for plugging one external drive into multiple computers in 2022, when storage is super cheap and networking is super fast. I have an external drive for a media library, storing there videos I'd like to watch and audiobooks I'd like to listen. Over years, it's grown pretty large. I'd like to have read/write access to the library from either a Macbook or a linux laptop. The linux laptop is old, and might die soon; and I am not sure whether I'll be replacing it with another linux laptop, or will switch to the Macbook entirely. I know that some people recommend getting an NAS drive; but I don't have appropriate setup for it.