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Yep, a refurb system is a great for a home server/NAS.
Depending on your use case, it would be worth going 7th gen for better transcoding support. Then, depending on the price difference, making the jump to an 8th gen system for extra CPU power.
Depending on where you're placing it, noise may also be a concern vs a NAS.
power usage?
my older one is running 4th gen i5 with 20GB ram, it was around 20W with lowest CPU power level setting doing just NAS things. I measured with a Kogan smart plug back then. I am using Win10 Pro though and set power level at power options.
so it will be 20W day in and out or does it go into standby mode for like 3W or something? 20W 24hrs a day is still a lot.
No other models on sale?
Some of the other Terramasters are, 2 and 4 bay.
I'm tossing up whether to go for it, instead of the small custom build I was planning. Sounds like you can install Unraid on these without issue.
I'm not very confident with my terramaster- 3 times already in 6 months- make both of my HDD unreadable together .disks look perfectly fine-no bad sectors and after a format they good to go again.
So looking at a different enclosure.
I have a das unit. D5-300
Not exactly the sort of thing you want to hear about when researching tbh. My Asustor has been flawless but is only 2 bay.
if you just want 2 bays, get an old HP deskpro SFF with 2 * 3.5" bays, usually goes less than $100 used for i5-6500 8GB or similar. You can get 2.5GbE Realtek cards from Ali for $15. OS on SATA SSD. You can also reduce CPU clocks for lower power usage, if needed.
I have two of these running for a long time, one with 2*16 TB and other one with 2+16 TB, rock solid. Seagate X16 drives are good and saturate 2.5GbE.