Sounds just like my usecase. What services are you using?

Not answering the whole question but still useful advice :) ty

When it’s streaming ready probably a bit more. But I guess I’m gonna be tinkering for a bit as suggested in other replies and build stuff successively. So for document and image storage it’ll be idling most of the time.

Ah, thanks for the clarification!

I’ve got my hands on an older Zotac nano that, according to the specs, has idle consumption of 6W. I think thats as good as it gets for a decent budget.

So uploads go via nc and samba distributes stuff back to the personal devices? Or what does samba actually do in this case?