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Home Mediacenter and NAS with the Raspberry Pi
This is my recipe to build a mediacenter and NAS box using the Raspberry Pi. This is the list of hardware components:
- Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 4 Gb RAM.
- 4 Tb hard disk Seagate IronWolf 3.5 inches.
- Suptronics.com X835 USB to SATA adapter, to connect the hard disk.
- Ugreen USB audio adapter.
- Gamepad USB wireless (SNES-like) used as remote control.
WARNING 
I cannot recommend this solution at all! It turned out that the Raspberry Pi, when it uses the USB 3 interface, produces radio interferences on the 2.4 GHz spectrum that you cannot reliably connect to the 2.4 GHz WiFi. I was unable to connect to my WiFi access point which is only 5 meters far. It was also impossible to use a wireless keyboard and mouse using the USB dongle which also operates on the 2.4 GHz. To operate the wireless gamepad (which also uses an USB dongle on the 2.4 GHz frequencies) I had to distantiate the dongle from the Raspberry Pi using and USB extension cable of about 0.5 meters.
Due this severe problem, I can suggest this solution only if you will use the Ethernet interface or an access point on the 5 Ghz band. As an alternative to the wireless gamepad or keyboard, you can use the Yatse application on an Android smartphone.