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What all would you do to set up Ubuntu as a NAS?
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Depends what protocols you need?
If you use SMB install the Samba server package. If you use WebDAV install a WebDAV server like SFTPGo, etc..
If you want a google drive like replacement there's Nextcloud, Owncloud, Seafile, and others.
For the drives themselves you can have traditional RAID with MD, or ZFS for more reliability and neat features, or go with MergerFS + SnapRAID, or just directly mount the disks and store files on some and backup to the others with Restic or something.
Lots of options!