-ThatGingerKid-

I plan on building my first home server primarily to function as a NAS. I'd love to video edit from it. Ultimately, I may stream home videos from it and may look at utilizing it in other ways as I learn to a home servers capabilities.

I've had the i3-12100 recommended a number of times. However, for the sake of power efficiency and upfront cost, however, I've been looking at i3-7100T. Would this be good enough for the needs I've outlined? I understand it would be significantly less powerful, but I want honest thoughts on whether it'd be sufficient for a video editing NAS?

Here's what I want... I want a central storage location for all of my extended family's family photos and videos. I want it easy to access and share from computers, phones, and smart TVs. I would also like each family (siblings' families) to be able to have a private folder for cloud storage.

I know that I can purchase a Synology NAS and take advantage of all of Synology's apps for phones, computers, smart TVs, etc and this would suit my needs perfectly.

However, I know I could also build a custom machine with TrueNAS, OpenMediaVault, or the like and use Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby for streaming the family videos and pics, and use something like NextCloud for access to personal storage from mobile, etc.

For my use-case, is there any reason why one ecosystem would be better than the other?

I've got a 2TB WD Elements external hard drive that I shucked. The PCB has a USB connector on it. I'd like to replace the PCB with one that has a SATA connection. Can this be done? Specifically it's a wd20nmvw