It does involve more hardware, yes. That hardware is relatively inexpensive. (I'd point you at what I have, but it looks like they don't make it any more.) It also involves a free port on your router, to plug the NAS into your network. PC Magazine has a page for their NAS reviews.
Games, etc.: You can do anything with a NAS that you can do with an internal hard drive, as long as the network is turned on.
Privacy: Any decent NAS will let you set up virtual drives with password protection.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Games, etc.: You can do anything with a NAS that you can do with an internal hard drive, as long as the network is turned on.
Privacy: Any decent NAS will let you set up virtual drives with password protection.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012