As a NAS owner of 5 years now, I’d definitely go with a DAS + a MiniPC, preferably with UnRaid on it.
And when buying high capacity HDDs check video reviews for their loudnesses. Some aren’t quite fit for Living Room usage as they often ROAR AND TREMBLE.



















Anna’s Archive’s data is on IPFS, so effectively it’s pretty hard to remove the data from the nets. Good luck to the establishment though!