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I've noticed the same thing. Every Intel N100-based machine costs ~200€ on Amazon.
I got a Dell Optiplex for £68 on eBay to replace my pi4b Home Assistant.
It's running Home Assistant plus a Windows machine Arr stack with Plex and transcoding, a music server, a NAS storage and Adguard at the moment and I still have ram to spare.
What are you using for the NAS enclosure?
Nothing as of yet, just a stack of disks on top of a pc
Ah bummer. I've been wanting to retire my mid tower in favor of one of the Optiplex micros that I have but wanted something that could hold the 9 HDDs currently inside of it that wasnt a $1300 NAS but haven't found a good solution.
I'm sure there will be some kind of rack you can get that is cheaper than $1200
Edit like this https://amzn.eu/d/a75EKlh
Unfortunately I'd need some sort of backplane with it to connect it to the micro PC. I have looked at DAS options but they seem pretty uncommon and mostly relegated to no-name Chinese manufacturers on Amazon which seems risky due to questionable quality.
I'm not sure what a backplane is, but my HDDs are connected via usb3 cables with power chords. I'm sure there's speed constraints but it's what I've done.
A backplane is what provides the HDDs power and data connections. A DAS is basically the drive caddy you linked to earlier with built in internal connections for each drive that then connect to a PC via a single wire.