1st time NAS building for HOME PC and Photo/ Video Storage

[KoreanChef1463]

Hi Everyone,

I have seen all the videos via Linus about setting up NAS at home using old computers and parts.
well I have the following and device are available to me for this retrofit

 

1. Sony Vaio SVF14N13CXB - Windows 10 Home - 8 GB RAM SOLDERED Intel Core i5-4200U

2. Fujitsu Lifebook U810 - Windows Vista Professioanl - 1 gb DDR2
3. Dell Inspiron 15 - windows 11 - 8 gbs ram ddr4 

 

Please let me know if any of these are viable to use anymore. otherwise I am getting rid of these laptops for good.

Located in NYC so please provide any guidance.

 

Point of NAS or Cloud is just for wife to stop using Google Drive and we use something at home.

[Electronics Wizardy]

How much storage do you want in this nas?

 

For the laptops, 2 is probably way to old. Whats the specs on 3?

 

Your gonna need some more storage added to these too most likely.

[KoreanChef1463]

Right, 

So i was thinking of selling / donating these devices and purchasing Raspberry Pi 5 with SSD support?
or is there a really simple fool proof way to us all my junk to start up.

iDeal storage is around 2~4 TB to start right now. I saw the Synology BEE series but just too much cost

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, KoreanChef1463 said:

Right, 

So i was thinking of selling / donating these devices and purchasing Raspberry Pi 5 with SSD support?
or is there a really simple fool proof way to us all my junk to start up.

iDeal storage is around 2~4 TB to start right now. I saw the Synology BEE series but just too much cost

If budget is a concern I'd go with HDDs here

 

Those laptops (1 and 3) are probably faster than a PI, so I don't really see a reason to go pi 5 here if it was me.

 

With the DIY solution the software setup is probably gonna be more complex.