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That's achievable, I've helped a few people with that sort of budget. 450GBP is $860AUD - That's fine. Obviously, different stores in different countries will have different things, but I can give you a basic example list from me locally, so you can explore in your region. I'd start with something like this: https://www.australiancomputertraders.com.au/hp-prodesk-600-g4-sff-intel-i3-8100-3.60ghz-8gb-ra~838418 $160; just shy of 85GBP. Than add something like 3x these 5TB HDD's. https://www.amazon.com.au/Seagate-Portable-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07VS8QCXC?th=1 They're shuckable, and 3 or more is 10% off, making them $234 AUD each or 122GBP 10TB of redundant storage, in an 8th gen QuickSync enabled 'server' for £1 over budget :P £85 + £122 + £122 + £122 = £451 Now there is a catch, but for a home user, it's USUALLY not as brutal in use as it is on paper. They are SMR drives This means no ZFS, unless you only use mirrors, otherwise the resilvers are impossibly (and damagingly) long. Being SMR, once you fill the cache, the writes are slow - Typically, though, faster than WiFi, and not much slower than GbE. Basically, it's very usable, its just an extra 1~2 minutes here and there when writing in BULK. OMV is a great choice, but you'll want to use a protection method that leaves the drives standalone - SnapRAID is the most obvious choice, but you could pay for UnRaid (you gain sync speed, but lose block level checksums - For most home users, it's not a fantastic trade; SnapRAID is almost always more suitable). Obviously, with SnapRAID, you'll only 'sync' your data protection nightly, weekly, or however often you feel you add new critical data. For streaming games, just find an old NUC, I have a 1st gen i3 NUC right now emulating up to N64 at 4x Resolution, and PS1 at 3X resolution. It's a little underpowered to manage to emulate an overclocked 3DO, You can forget about the Sega Saturn on a i3 that old, and Dreamcast really needs you to use ReDream as the core (which is fine, but it's just basic). But we're talking 3rd gen hardware. If you can find an old 8th gen NUC with the Iris Plus graphics, you'll be laughing all the way to WiiU, and PS2 at 2X res, even on games like SOTC.