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User wants their NAS to be smarter than a filing cabinet, capable of searching documents based on content or description, similar to how phone photo apps use AI. They want this functionality to be easy to set up and maintain, not a "part-time job."
yeah bought my first NAS about four years ago and the first few months were genuinely exciting. set up the RAID, moved everything off Google Drive, got the backups running. felt like i had actually solved something. and then it just... sat there. doing exactly what it was supposed to do. forever. i'm not complaining about the reliability. the reliability is the whole point and it delivers. but somewhere along the way i stopped thinking of it as a computer and started thinking of it as furniture. it holds things. i put things in. occasionally i take things out. it does not have opinions about any of this. started noticing how dumb it actually is when i tried to find a document from 2024. i knew roughly what it was about, knew it existed, had no idea what i named it. the NAS offered me a search bar that searches filenames. i found it eventually by opening folders until i got lucky. My phone found a photo i described in two seconds last week. my NAS has four times the storage and the intelligence of a filing cabinet. i've looked into adding some local AI layer on top of it. technically possible. also apparently a part-time job to set up and maintain. which feels like the wrong answer for something that's supposed to just work. is anyone actually running something that makes their NAS smarter without it becoming a whole separate project??