diff --git a/docs/configuration/system.md b/docs/configuration/system.md
index 72dc35a2f..d1924f75b 100644
--- a/docs/configuration/system.md
+++ b/docs/configuration/system.md
@@ -186,8 +186,6 @@ Default: `$INSTALL_ROOT/netbox/scripts/`
 
 The file path to the location where [custom scripts](../customization/custom-scripts.md) will be kept. By default, this is the `netbox/scripts/` directory within the base NetBox installation path.
 
-**Note:** If configuring STORAGES to use AWS S3 set SCRIPTS_ROOT to the prefix (or folder) you want scripts stored in, for example: `scripts`
-
 ---
 
 ## SEARCH_BACKEND
diff --git a/netbox/core/models/files.py b/netbox/core/models/files.py
index e72011bed..79c79f191 100644
--- a/netbox/core/models/files.py
+++ b/netbox/core/models/files.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import logging
 import os
+from functools import cached_property
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
@@ -20,8 +21,6 @@ logger = logging.getLogger('netbox.core.files')
 
 
 class ManagedFile(SyncedDataMixin, models.Model):
-    storage = None
-
     """
     Database representation for a file on disk. This class is typically wrapped by a proxy class (e.g. ScriptModule)
     to provide additional functionality.
@@ -101,11 +100,9 @@ class ManagedFile(SyncedDataMixin, models.Model):
         with storage.open(path, 'wb+') as new_file:
             new_file.write(self.data)
 
+    @cached_property
     def get_storage(self):
-        if self.storage is None:
-            self.storage = storages.create_storage(storages.backends["scripts"])
-
-        return self.storage
+        return storages.create_storage(storages.backends["scripts"])
 
     def clean(self):
         super().clean()
diff --git a/netbox/extras/models/mixins.py b/netbox/extras/models/mixins.py
index 6a8482bc6..2fc9f3e47 100644
--- a/netbox/extras/models/mixins.py
+++ b/netbox/extras/models/mixins.py
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ __all__ = (
 
 
 class CustomStoragesLoader(importlib.abc.Loader):
+    """
+    Custom loader for exec_module to use django-storages instead of the file system.
+    """
     def __init__(self, filename):
         self.filename = filename
 
diff --git a/netbox/extras/storage.py b/netbox/extras/storage.py
index 8f73b1090..ede4fac7f 100644
--- a/netbox/extras/storage.py
+++ b/netbox/extras/storage.py
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ from django.utils.functional import cached_property
 
 
 class ScriptFileSystemStorage(FileSystemStorage):
-
+    """
+    Custom storage for scripts - for django-storages as the default one will
+    go off media-root and raise security errors as the scripts can be outside
+    the media-root directory.
+    """
     @cached_property
     def base_location(self):
         return settings.SCRIPTS_ROOT
diff --git a/netbox/netbox/settings.py b/netbox/netbox/settings.py
index 47991cdd2..e41f52dbd 100644
--- a/netbox/netbox/settings.py
+++ b/netbox/netbox/settings.py
@@ -236,13 +236,18 @@ DATABASES = {
 #
 
 if STORAGE_BACKEND is not None:
-    warnings.warn(
-        "STORAGE_BACKEND is deprecated, use the new STORAGES setting instead."
-    )
+    if STORAGES is not None:
+        raise ImproperlyConfigured(
+            "STORAGE_BACKEND and STORAGES are both set, remove the deprecated STORAGE_BACKEND setting."
+        )
+    else:
+        warnings.warn(
+            "STORAGE_BACKEND is deprecated, use the new STORAGES setting instead."
+        )
 
-if STORAGE_BACKEND is not None and STORAGES is not None:
-    raise ImproperlyConfigured(
-        "STORAGE_BACKEND and STORAGES are both set, remove the deprecated STORAGE_BACKEND setting."
+if STORAGE_CONFIG is not None:
+    warnings.warn(
+        "STORAGE_CONFIG is deprecated, use the new STORAGES setting instead."
     )
 
 # Default STORAGES for Django
@@ -287,7 +292,7 @@ if STORAGE_BACKEND == 'swift.storage.SwiftStorage':
     for param, value in STORAGE_CONFIG.items():
         if param.startswith('SWIFT_'):
             globals()[param] = value
-
+# TODO: End of deprecated code
 
 #
 # Redis