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If you shoot with a modern camera, you know the storage problem. Every wedding shoot is 80 gigs of raw files. A week of travel photography is another 100 gigs. External hard drives fill up, get lost, get dropped, and — the worst part — they're not backed up. I say this as someone who lost a year of client work to a dead 2TB drive once. Never again.

A NAS fixes most of this. It gives you one central place for your photo library, automatic backup options, and access from every computer in the house. And you don't need a $1,000 Synology to get there. A budget DIY build does the job for a fraction of the price. Here's how to put one together.