3 reasons why you should separate your NAS from your homelab

When I first built my homelab, I did what most people do—I put everything on one machine. My NAS, my services, my containers—all of it running on the same box. It made sense at the time: why buy two machines when one can do the job? But eventually, I started to see the issues this supposed “optimization” introduced. Here are the three main reasons I decided to separate my NAS from my homelab.