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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 band. It is impossibile to connect to the 2.4 GHz WiFi access point which is only 5 meters far. It was also impossible to use a wireless keyboard and mouse, using one USB dongle which also operates on the 2.4 GHz. To operate a 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.