Yes, a NUC, a miniITX PC, a commercial NAS, etc. would work. There are a lot of good options in this space. I would note that the apu2 is more or less half of

Yes, a NUC, a miniITX PC, a commercial NAS, etc. would work. There are a lot of good options in this space. I would note that the apu2 is more or less half of a PS4, ignoring the GPU (which probably wouldn't work that well anyway?). PS4 | apu2c4 8x 1.6GHz Jaguar | 4x 1.0 GHz Jaguar 8GB GDDR5 | 4GB DDR3-1333 SATA, USB 3.0 | mSATA, SATA, USB 2.0/3.0, SD 1G Ethernet | 3x 1G Ethernet BT 2.1, WiFi N | N/A HDMI, SPDIF | N/A