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I don't know that you can do that with the router (maybe DD-WRT supports it?), but you can certainly map a SFTP server to a network drive in Windows. There are several apps, including winsshfs and RaiDrive.
Set up NFS/Samba on the VPS, slap your laptop and the VPS on a private network (use Tailscale, ZeroTier, WireGuard, whatever the fuck you want) and call it a day.
EDIT: Why does it have to be the router? Why not just directly from your machine?
Because i have multiple desktop n laptops n mobiles at home. Currently hooking a local 2 bay nas to router for every devices to access. Wonder if such ideology work for a remote storage.
You'd usually have a separate small box for that (e.g. RPi, Intel NUC) so you don't fuck your home network while working on the storage, anyhoo even if you do it on the router itself shouldn't change anything given your router runs (or is flashable) Linux
sshfs
On storage server: create an iSCSI target.
Between storage server and home router: you should have VPN because iSCSI is unencrypted.
On home router: setup iSCSI initiator and SAMBA server.
On laptop: map network drive.
I think its easier to use sshfs or ftpfs to mount the server to a local mountpoint.
Can sshfs ftpfs work on ipv6 only storage vps?