A long while back I purchased a simple 4 bay DAS and threw in a few 14 TB drives with proper 3-2-1 backups in place. Now, several years down the line, I've realized just how nice a NAS would actually be to have, but I don't want to waste my current set up, instead I just want to make a simple change. Essentially all I want to do is disconnect my DAS from my workstation and connect it to a simple mini computer (like the one linked above) through USB-C and run it over Ethernet. Obviously the speed wouldn't be quite the same, but my current use cases don't need high speed and besides, I could just directly connect the drives for a bit if I need to do anything big. My main plan right now is to use it as backup for my workstation and to run jellyfin as I've been beefing up my media collection for a little while now.
So what do y'all think? Am I missing something here? Is there a cheaper / simpler solution? Would love to hear feedback if you got any. Thanks.