Anybody use a local Server shared drive for a Steam library?

Anybody use a server or NAS shared drive for a Steam library?

Specs are TrueNAS OS, Intel 245K with 96GB DDR5 RAM, 140TB on SAS drives.

Network is a mixture of 2.5gb and 10gb connections.

I also use this for plex and other various programs I host.

My other computers I use are all Linux based, cachyos, zorin, and bazzite mixtures.

Hows your experience doing this?

I'm attempting it now with neverwinter nights, 7 days to die, and kings bounty.
Nothing is touching a windows pc

No but I have like 5 drives with windows or linux installed and doing nothing, I really should set up a NAS box. Some of them have files I want to get off and consolidate, and I've been procrastinating.

You don't need to. Steam already allows for local streaming. You can play a game that's on another machine that has Steam running that you're logged into.

El_Capitan said:

You don't need to. Steam already allows for local streaming. You can play a game that's on another machine that has Steam running that you're logged into.

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It is nice if your PC is off most of the time and you want to play a quick game, plus you can put other stuff on it (videos/music/etc) if you have that.

Nobu said:

It is nice if your PC is off most of the time and you want to play a quick game, plus you can put other stuff on it (videos/music/etc) if you have that.

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True, everything has it's own use cases.

I do. I made an iscsi share and mounted it. I have 10gig nics so it is pretty fast.

It was underwelming at 1g, but would probably be usable at 10g.

Alternately, if you run steam on the fileserver, you could use steam's install from networked computer feature to install games on demand as needed.