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You could get one of those cheap N100 boards and a couple refurbished enterprise HDD's. Board costs about 150, case & PSU another 150, which leaves you with enough to buy 2 10ish TB drives, a boot drive and some additional RAM. Power usage should be pretty decent.
Another option is going with a second hand Mini PC and a DAS. I went with this myself because it's the cheapest and easiest option. It cost me about €150 combined (excluding the cost of the 2 drives I had laying around), and it has served me well for the past year. The CPU is a bit weak (i5-6500T) and it doesn't have a lot of RAM (8GiB), but it handles the 30ish docker containers and video transcoding (single stream) well.
I've also bought an old proliant micro server and I wouldn't really recommend it. It uses a lot of power and it was kind of a pain to get running. I'm planning on installing a HBA adapter and using it as a backup system.