I don’t have enough energy to build a PC especially since I’ve never done that before (I have swapped parts in various PCs before like CPU, sticks or PCIE devices but never assembled the whole thing together). I was initially planning to buy a QNAP or UGREEN but keep thinking that my own would probably be better in the long run because of all the things I’ve read on the internets
There must be full size Dell/Lenovo/HP towers that have 8 bays right? I have an old Mac Pro but it only has 4 bays (could remove the CD drive to make space for more I guess), but it produces too much heat and won’t fit in the networking corner (and I’d prefer to keep using it as a normal PC).
It would run Jellyfin and maybe separate music streaming. I would run Time Machine backups as well as backups for other things like family photos. Will be isolated from WAN (time to learn about VLANs as well I spose).
I am not decided yet on whether I will be running TrueNAS or something else