Ts 451A as a main nas still worthit?

[djtron]

I have an old gaming pc i5 4690 gtx970 that im planning to convert to NAS but concerned about power consumption or sell it in few years. Also recently bought a 2nd hand qnap ts251a 2bay with 8gb ram.

I have an opportunity to buy this 2nd hand 4 bay with a similar 2016 dual core celeron processor for $67. I have currently 2x8tb nas drive in my 2bay nas used for 720p media tv playing and files storage and a 4tb portable drive for backup which is not sufficient. I habe a 1 and 2tb and planning to purchase another 2x8tb late year for the same purpose.

[dolbyman]

So what is the question ?

Convert a PC to NAS ?
Keep a NAS ?
Buy a NAS?

720p streaming can be done by any NAS ..so that requirement fails to direct

[djtron]

Is ts451a still good in 2021 for my use rather than using the old i5 gaming pc as a nas and bought a new gaming system?

[dolbyman]

So what is the requirement for the NAS ? .. Just file serving ?

[djtron]

Mostly backup storage of my 2bay nas (media), document storage and tinkering for dockers/owncloud/next cloud/self hosted.

[dolbyman]

Should be fine then..none of this is very demanding

[ColHut]

Certainly cheap enough to run. Adds up quite a bit over a year.