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I would like to make myself a media server and NAS which stores my photoes and files. I have an Optiplex 3070 with a 1 TB Hdd which i plan to use for my media server and want to buy a raspberry pi to use as a NAS for photos and files. What do you think ? will raspberry pi5 be enough, i want something small.

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[–] freeearth@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 week ago

IMO, don't buy an RPI. It's overpriced and missing SATA and PCIE, so you would need to use USB-SATA and it's not about moving big mount of data.

You might take a look at older Synology or build your own NAS and run TrueNAS on it