Hello, I want to get into the world of creating a homelab, but I’m getting confused by all the information online. I want to use a raspberry pi 5 because of the ease of set up (at least to my limited understanding).

My use case/desires would be:

• Low energy consumption (I live in California where the rates are high)
• Securely and quickly read and write files to Nextcloud
• Stream, music and videos remotely without lag
• ease of set up and maintenance
• low cost
• periodically back up to another hard drive in case the main one fails

Does anybody have suggestions on hardware I should attach to my raspberry pie for this NAS?

I was thinking of just attaching an external SSD drive from Costco and installing the OS on this, as well as Twingate and Nextcloud, and some kind of streaming service like Plex.

Sorry for such the noob question…