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    • What’s the cheapest and most flexible NAS I can make from eBay or local? What kind of processors and what motherboard features?

    cheapest is some decade old oem desktop ideally with as many sata ports as possible. the most flexible is whatever gives the most pci-e lane bandwith as they can be converted to most things. processor features most dont matter unless the NAS is also a media server, which you want an igpu that can do hardware encoding to whatever usecase you have.

    • What separate guides should I follow to source the drives? What RAID?

    i dont have a reccomendation on drive, but if you value drive redundancy, raid 1 (mirror) or raid 6(if youre using zfs, that would be zfs z2, this layout is basically requires 3 drives to die in order to lose data)

    • What backup style should I follow? How many cold copies? How do I even handle the event of a fire?

    its on you on how you want to handle offsite backups be it cloud, or you having a clone that you manually backup offsite. pick whatever suits your needs