Basically, I want to build a home server that will do pretty much everything, including to serve as a NAS that can be accessed from outside the house. I'm looking at 14TB Hdds right now, but the cost for multiple of them is pretty steep. I'm thinking about foregoing and sort of Raid and instead using a NUC as a second machine dedicated to backups for the NAS, does that sound reasonable? I'd also like suggestions on where to get purchase the drives if possible. Going refurb, already checked out Goharddrive and ServerPartDeals. There don't seem to be many if any alternatives with sane prices and 5 year warranties like those two offer that I've seen so far.
Looking at a 9700X for the Cpu, 32GB of registered Ecc Ram, and a 1TB NVME for boot + cache. I'm reusing a 750W SFF PSU I had laying around, gonna install TrueNAS. Feedback welcome & appreciated, thanks.