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.
Even if possible, a $50 old office PC will be more reliable with no risk of the Android OS killing whatever software you end up running on it. And you can use SATA HDDs directly with such a setup. The power consumption is likely a bit higher than running on a phone, but for the ability to run any docker container out there it’s likely a worthwhile tradeoff. Alternatively if you can hunt down an Atomic Pi or similar old atom based SBC you can trade some performance for power savings while still running an OS truly intended for networking.