Until today my extent of data hoarding was a single 12tb hard drive and a low powered pc which hosts my Jellyfin server. However this morning I...
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Until today my extent of data hoarding was a single 12tb hard drive and a low powered pc which hosts my Jellyfin server.

However this morning I won the Facebook marketplace jackpot and am now the proud owner of 7 4TB WD elements hard drives and 1 5TB WD element hard drive. All for the grand sum of zero British pounds!

I now need the figure out what to do with all these hard drives. I have done some preliminary research and NAS does seem the best option but I have 0 idea how it all works. How do I know if the hard drives I have will fit in a specific NAS drive? And can I run a NAS server from a very low powered pc? Are there other options for connecting 8 drives to a single PC?

EDIT: These are the specific hard drives if that helps