How to turn your PC into NAS on Windows 11 If you want to turn your desktop computer into a network-attached storage device, first, you need to configure the storage, set a static network ...

Instead of reenacting the printer scene from Office Space, put that old laptop or desktop to good use as a home media server.

What Does a NAS or Home Server Do? Network Attached Storage—or NAS for short—is basically a set of hard drives connected to your network, so any computer in your house can access them.

What is easy however, is installing Windows Home Server on an old computer. I threw mine together in an afternoon with random parts of old systems complete with 6 parallel hard drives.