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Spending 3000$ to assemble a PC and installing TrueNas as is not new nor informative to me. I'm not a huge fan of rich people spending thousand of dollars building a power hog a call it a nice NAS.
The post would be more interesting if, at least, it would show the assembling (not stolen photos) and the software settings. For a really interesting post I would like to see a before/after benchmark of performance and power consumption.
I don't think any server, especially self hosting should be CISC based like x86 architecture but RISC like arm or RiSC-V. The power usage is a order of magnitude less. Also really building yourself would probably cost hundreds and not thousands of dollars.
There’s a crap tonne of youtube videos showing people building them on the cheap and quite a few that use low-powered Celeron boards to keep power usage down.
Celeron is x86 and quiet bad at its job as far as I have always seen. Benchmark would be nice.
It depends on your needs. If you need your NAS to also run your home server, you may need more (yet a N100, say, has h265 HW decoding) but for just running storage, a up to date Celeron will be more than adequate.