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There's a few places that sell second hand computers and stuff near me that I know of, and more here. But will it end up any "better" than a normal NAS? I've seen a few use cases like having it run as a PLEX server too, which would be pretty cool as I've been wanting to digitise my DVD/BR ...

Hey all! I'm looking to get a NAS so I can start properly backing up my photos, documents and stuff. I was wondering if it would be worth getting some old parts together and build a low power PC from that and install something like FreeNAS, or whether to just buy a premade enclosure? I'd much rather ...