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Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
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How about a Raspberry Pi? I've got one (Raspberry Pi 400) running my Home Automation setup with a couple USB 3.0 ports. Was thinking there's gotta be some add-ons for Home Assistant to put some external storage to good use.
Don't need anything too fancy. Just looking for some on-site backup and maybe some media storage
I've got 2 rPis - a pi5 running Home Assistant and a pi4 with a USB drive caddy acting as little more than a NAS (it also does all the downloading through radarr etc.. )
I find them perfectly adequate.
My gaming rig acts as my emby server as it's basically on all the time and it has a beefy gfx card that can handle transcoding.