I play 4k and 1080p HD stuff all the time with 5.1 surround at home and when I travel. It also runs my pihole and I have a rudimentary raid 1 (def not real raid 1) running with the rsync command to mirror my media drive that backs my data up every day at midnight. It’s a punchy little fucker.

I don’t disagree that you’re generally paying for the name but it my 4b w/ 8GB ram I got as a gift kicks ass. There are definitely better machines out there but the pi can handle lots of what I ask of it.

I have an old 2 something I’m thinking of using to host my cloud storage on, too. I don’t mind if it’s slower uploading.

What are you on about? I’ve been hosting Plex on my raspberry pi without issue for literal years lol