Not exactly what I use…
I have a USB hard drive attached to my network router/switch. I use the drive for archiving and for sharing with other computers on my network. USB for a drive connection is not super fast but it is adequate for the intended purpose.
I mostly use it to save drive space on my computer internal drives. It is a storage system. I do some backup storage on the drive too. They are usually compressed files that can only be used to restore files back to the source.
The folks who designed Windows 10 pro decided that by default, drives on the LAN should automatically be synced to the Windows 10 computer when they are set up as a remote drive. That means a full copy resides on the local computer of what is on the remote drive. This defeats the entire purpose of the remote drive providing ADDITIONAL storage space. DUH!
There are cases where this could be desirable, but not for me. There is a check box to turn off syncing under drive properties, but it doesn’t work from there in Win 10 pro. I could clear the enable sync check box but it wouldn’t let me save it that way. I had to dig deep into obscured set-up files to find the master turn-off switch. Yes there is one. But it is very hard to find. Now it works the way I want.
DO a search using “drive syncing” to find it. It has it’s own private well-hidden menu to turn this function off. Even when I was looking at it, there is text trying to scare me away from turning syncing off.
Windows 10 does that a lot. The program designers try to design for the average user and make sure features are available by defaulting them on. But then they make it very hard for the clueless to accidentally turn them off. A kind of protection code.
By the way, the same thing happens with Dropbox. There is a full copy of Dropbox on each of my local computers. Dropbox is a syncing service the same as the Windows 10 LAN drive default. It is not actually EXTRA storage space. So it is a backup copy that can be accessed remotely or used for sharing. A large local drive is still required, equal to what is stored on Dropbox.
In fact most cloud storage works that way, i.e. Microsoft OneDrive. You have to read the fine print. This is what WIN 10 assumes too. But sometimes syncing is not what I want… The choice is there to turn it off but hard to do.