You can share storage from the nuc to another device over the network, same
way as if you went and bought a synology/qnap nas or other with cifs/nfs.
It's a full pc, but you could just install freenas or like on it and use it
as a storage array as well easy enough.

Oddly I saw that someone was selling synology clones on random chinese
hardware on ebay so it *is* possible to use on NOT their hardware.  I use a
couple synologys and love them vs. using freenas or other storage
distributions.  Kind of a hackintosh for the storage world, maybe even your
nuc.

-mb


On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:20 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> My father gave me an old NUC (DCCP847DYE) that needed an SSD. I I
> ordered the SSD yesterday and am awaiting it now and I was hoping to
> just use the NUC as an external USB drive. Is it as simple as
> connecting the two computers with a USB cord? or will I have to use an
> ethernet cable?
>
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