tl;dr is: scrounge up some hardware, preferably on a recent-ish Intel platform with an igpu (i think 8th gen+ is the sweet shot), and then get a slew of storage. Pick a base operating system (I like ...
What if you could transform a humble Raspberry Pi into a fully functional network-attached storage (NAS) server? It sounds ambitious, even improbable, given the Raspberry Pi’s reputation as a ...