I've been thinking of building a NAS for a while now, partly from necessity, partly for the fun of it. I needed to achieve the following:

• Lots of space for archives, backups, ethical torrents, etc
• Quiet, preferably silent
• Low power consumption
• Compact
• Reasonable resilience
• Low maintenance
• Use my existing Mele Quieter 3Q

I could've gone out and bought something pre-made which checked most of the boxes, but where's the fun in that 😁.

I will create a posts for each major milestone rather than have a single monolithic post.