Sure, all I have is 1x 2 bay NAS, 1x home server (which may also be hosting a witness node soon!), 4x PoE cameras, 2x computers, then all the various ethernet for the longue room. It is a small, tiny, set up, but probably overkill for most households.
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I'll be installing a seed node here probably sometime early next year :) I half want a NAS at home, but I don't want to deal with the noise and it's just easier to upload it to either a server I have somewhere in the world or use something like google drive.
I use mine as a local backup for my photography clients. It syncs to the cloud - but it is not a noisy or hot machine. It is fast enough for me to edit on, but I think for my next one, I am going to risk all-flash, with perhaps 2x spinning rust as a redundant on-site back up.
I'd love for a all flash storage server but the $$$ is too off putting. Storage space on spinning rust is too cheap to ignore it. Though with caching things probably are usable. I half want to build my own S3 cluster to play around with that.
Realistically, I only need 8TB total for my photography stuff (and for it to handle future expansion for a few years) - which isnt too bad cost wise. The cost would be in upgrading the rest of my home network (3x NICs, 1x Router, 1x Switch) in order to take advantage of the speed
Used devices are fairly cheap! Though stuff you can put in datacenters that have 48x 10G ports for $150 are insanely loud so that makes it a bit harder to do. Maybe a fan mod might be the trick with them though.
Considering my rack is about 2 metres behind me, I am impressed that my desktop PC is louder than it, combined, so, I try to keep silence in mind for my rack equipment. Though, in summer time (here in Australia) - the air conditioner itself is the loudest thing!
Grab some Mikrotiks and call it a day :) Cheap, work good enough for home usage, and not loud.