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You can't run much on ARM, but I run a Minecraft server on mine. The rest I run on the x86 box. The rpis basically just "run." I'm sure there's limits but for what I need, they do just fine. It's not really future proofed per se, it's just something I set up so I do not have to tinker with it too much unless it's a bigger change out (more storage, newer compute tech, replacements, what have you) or something goes sideways (even stable setups, something eventually gives either hardware or software). I'm an older guy, work professionally in IT, and the zeal of "new" has worn off for me in later years. I wanna enjoy the product of what I setup, not be constantly tinkering or testing things I guess. Reliable, available, secure, and if possible, eco friendly are my main goals. Here's a link to the dual bay DAS I got. You can get different, bigger, faster, whatever but for what I needed, dual bay at 5gbps throughput was plenty. https://amzn.to/4bWP2X6
If you're not opposed to it, I've run Emby fantastically on a dell micro 7050 (Intel quick sync for any encoding is seamless and set it / forget it for 95% use cases) and used a USB DAS enclosure for storage. Here is the one that I got, but there are plenty of others to choose from. (Full disclosure this is an affiliate link. I am a vine member so that's why I have them. You don't have to use my link to buy it, just explaining why it's an affiliate link) https://amzn.to/4sXobzR I was fine with only getting 5Gbps max throughout as it was a two bay and my intended use was for raid 1 functionality across two spinning 20TB ironwolf drives (hence never gonna hit the max anyway).