7 everyday tech headaches a home NAS easily solves

A network-attached storage — or NAS for short — may sound like something only IT folks would use. But there are plenty of home NAS models that blend so well into your everyday digital life that you’d wonder why you didn’t get one earlier. A NAS doesn’t just give you peace of mind with backups — this small box can literally save the day when something goes south one random evening, like your laptop crashing or someone accidentally deleting years of photos. And no, you don’t have to be a techie to take advantage of a NAS and its various (almost magical) perks.