This all day. USB3 has plenty of bandwidth to keep those spinners busy, and a cheap pc can be bought for under $200 that would handle all the services op described, plus more.

I bought an n150 with 12gb RAM, dual 2.5gb nic, built in name and USB 3.2. it uses like 15w of power, is basically silent, and with a 5 bay HDD attached I’ve got enough storage for whatever.

Building a home lab server from components is only a good idea if you have some really specific use case not covered by cheap imports…