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Theres plenty of replies with options of decent, current NAS setups - so I'll reply with my 1st NAS instead...
You could start with a Pi-NAS to save a lot of $$coin$$... start with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB; it has gigabit ethernet, so it meets that baseline... since you'll be running over the USB-3 BUS regardless, you can get away with buying cheap USB drives; there are many brands, but Western Digitals are pretty cheap... they go up to like 40GB now a days, but 4TB drives are only $100 or so... I went with two 8TB drives. Its better, IMO, to go with the larger 3.5" versions because they come with external power supplies. I found with the smaller 2.5" drives, the Pi could only power one sucking power over USB...
I used no RAID, as you have to jump thru a few extra hoops to get RAID setup over drives on the USB-3 bus... backup was done thru my Proxmox PBS server - but we're not here for the safe backup talk, right?
All this was running OpenMediaVault, which is a pretty decent NAS software. It has support for all the connection types you want - and believe it or not, I also ran Plex in docker and got decent results; while I wasn't able to do any transcoding, wireless playback worked quick enough for me - and I could even watch movies remotely...
I mention this setup b/c a 16TB Pi-NAS can be had for $300, all in... you can see speeds of 100MB/s but I found 40-50MB/s was an average because of WiFi or other bottlenecks.
Its cool to have options when building a NAS; I've since moved my NAS to a Proxmox VM on my Dell Poweredge server, but the Pi-NAS ran without fail for four years...