On: Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

[type0]

I tried using different sd cards with RPi but kept having issues with broken filesystem few months after, it was probably caused by bad power supply and electric surges.

[jhgb → type0]

You don't HAVE to boot RPi4+ from an SD card. RPi4 and RPi5 can boot from an external SSD just fine. I don't recall the last time I used an SD card in an RPi but it must have been years.

[type0 → jhgb]

Yeah, that's what i have done, but it becomes bulky which doesn't always fits the project