Title says pretty much all there is. Im just getting started in this and don’t want to go too crazy. Im willing to go as high as $250 right now which, when i look around, i know isn’t gonna get me anything absolutely amazing but hey back off im an instacart driver lol
I don’t need a NAS personally but if I am I definitely would go for a SBC build with several hard disks thought SATA. Good luck.
QNAP. Their current offerings are solid performers.
To start with you can grab whatever hardware u have (or buy whatever on ebay) if you are spending money then new hdd and some way to add redundancy. Throw proxmox on it (or TrueNAS), proxmox will serve you in multiple ways. Install cockpit to serve HDDs over samba / nfs.
Video explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu3t8pcq8O0
Build it yourself! I bought a used HP desktop from eBay and I couldn’t be happier.
