I don’t know about Raspberry Pi, but I went for the familiar Intel/Linux setup: mini-ITX computer, fanless, similar to Intel NUC but bought off Alibaba, 4 GB me

I don’t know about Raspberry Pi, but I went for the familiar Intel/Linux setup: mini-ITX computer, fanless, similar to Intel NUC but bought off Alibaba, 4 GB memory, reasonable 256 GB SSD, 4TB WD passport, synced to my OneDrive account. I replaced big noisy NAS setup with this and it has been great and working for many years now. I do not host any public facing web server though and connect to it only through VPN (being hosted on the same computer).