Could Someone Give me Advice on Building a Budget-Friendly Home Server for Media and Backup Purposes?

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[Guide] NAS Killer 6.0 - DDR4 is finally cheap

[image] This is what AI thinks the best home NAS looks like. It sure looks like a Cooler Master N400 to me. Intro What is a NAS Killer? It’s a powerful, cost-effective, and upgradable Network Attached Storage (NAS) system. What’s it “killing?” Slow, expensive, and proprietary off the shelf NAS units. Why do I want a home NAS? A home NAS safeguards your data, serves it to you and your family, handles computer backups seamlessly, streams media, records video from security cameras, and so…

The NK6 guide sounds perfectly suited, probably the highly recommended Dell 3630 based version.

[Build Complete] NK4 to NK6 Upgrade with Dell Precision 3630 board

I’ve been running a NK4 adjacent build since late 2020 with an assortment of HDDs from BitDeals or others and then Rhino Drives. Here are some pics of my NK4 before I started. [FullSizeRender-2] [FullSizeRender-4] I recently “upgraded” my daily driver from a Dell Optiplex 9020 Mid Tower to a Precision 3630 last winter before the NK6 Guide came out (I am a sucker for university surplus equipment.) For that build I was somewhat surprised that the newer Precision was actually LESS proprieta…

Intel CPU, 16-32 GB RAM