you can get a decent NAS for not to much anymore, the drives are what can get costly. I will always support a local NAS for backups. just have a plan for when it fails or gets damaged (fire etc)

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Hi,

My Win10 laptop has a message on it that it does not qualify for Win11
and I should look into a new computer....  HAHA ... I'm putting Linux on
it and will use it for years to come.

In a past thread we talked about my needs, which I am looking at from a
different angle.

I need my computer for all the basic stuff like mail, YouTube... etc.

Instead of buying a $2k machine I can continue to use old hardware and:

1) Use shared hosting for dev and testing,  One account and add a
subdomain for each project.
2) Use Canva for making and editing videos + graphics.

All I really need now is a NAS.

So my old laptop with 16Gb of RAM, Intel Core i7-7500U @ 2.70GHz,
2cores/4treads, 238SSD, and 500M HD, running Linux is all I need.

Any feedback much appreciated.

Keith
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