I've previously considered buying a NAS but never gotten round to it, especially since units with more than 2 bays seem pretty expensive across the board, and I will probably need more than that in ...

On its own, the term “network-attached storage” sounds rather boring. You could easily imagine a useful-but-dull beige box that’s intended to live its days out in a corporate network’s server room.

If you want to use the drive on another PC on your network, you’ll need to map the drive. Here’s how to do that: Once you’ve mapped the drive, you’ll be able to use it on that computer too. Just be ...