My $450 Scratch Built NAS with 12TB of Storage

I&rsquo;ve been having some fun dipping my toes into the realm of homelabbing and decided it was time to build a proper NAS. I used to back up my data between my two laptops using Syncthing and I felt fairly safe with that setup because if one laptop died I&rsquo;d still have all the data on the other laptop.