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Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2025
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I started my media server in 2020 with an e-wasted i7 3770 dell tower I snagged out of the ewaste pile. Ran jellyfin, audiobookbay, navidrome, calibre-web and an arr stack with about a dozen users like a champ. Old hardware rules if you don't use windows