How can someone without programming skills make a cloud server at home for cheap?
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Not programming skills, but sysadmin skills.
Buy a used server on EBay (companies often sell their old servers for cheap when they upgrade). Buy a bunch of HDDs. Install Linux and set up the HDDs in a ZFS pool.
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Debian, virtualmin, podman with cockpit, install these on any cheap used pc you find, after initial setup all other is gui managed
Raspberry Pi or an old office PC are the usual methods. It's not so much programming as Linux sysadmin skills.
Beyond that, you might consider OwnCloud for an app-like experience, or just Samba if all you want is local network files.
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These things are unreliable, I had 3 seagate HDDs in a row fail on me. Never had an issue with SSDs and never looked back.
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The two models, [...] each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk
Huh? The hell is this supposed to mean? Are they talking about the internal platters?
More than likely
How many platters?!
30 to 32 platters. You can write a file on the edge and watch it as it speeds back to the future!