The Homesteader

16TB home server for Plex, backups, and self-hosting

Built for the home lab. The Homesteader pairs 16TB of NAS-grade Western Digital Red Plus storage with a 6-core Ryzen 5 5600G and 32GB of memory, giving you a quiet, always-on machine for Plex, file backups, self-hosted apps, and media archiving. A 500GB Gen4 NVMe SSD keeps the system responsive while the dual Red Plus drives handle the heavy lifting. Integrated Radeon graphics mean no power-hungry GPU to feed, and the sound-dampened Fractal Design Define R5 keeps it cool and near-silent in any room. WiFi 6 and 2.5GbE are built in, so it drops onto your network anywhere in the house. Like every ReBorn build, it was assembled on Tyler's bench, stress-tested, and backed by a 60-day guarantee.