I mean, you connect a phone to a USB-C Hub and the phone can gets power and the SDD /hard drives can get plugged into the USB hub, but I was wondering if there’s any apps that can sort of open up your phone’s to the internet so that you can access the files (via the phone) from another location?
I know its probably gonna be slow, but is it possible? Maybe “NAS” is the wrong term for it, I’m thinking like a personal “Cloud Drive” except I control the hardware.
Yeah I think the transferring speed is a major issue for using an Android device for an NAS implementation, because of how Google deliberately implemented it so that you have to go through FUSE to do file management with any external device attached, which is not only slow but also very unreliable (again because of how Google deliberately chose to implement their FUSE implementation in Android).
You can probably get full USB speed for example with a chroot set up (on a rooted Android phone) with full Linux and direct hardware access, but at that point it’s really not different from setting up an NAS with a laptop running Linux, so it kinda defeats the purpose lol