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Yes, the only thing being that most NUCs can only have one drive (or one m.2 and one 2.5" sata drive) so you can't do anything like drive mirroring so if you lose a drive you're in trouble.
Ideally youwould be storing those files on a NAS anyways.
I've had the drive on my kodi box fail a couple of times now, it's annoying. Torrenting probably puts a lot of wear on the drive though so it's to be expected.
I have two old NUCs, one DN2820FYK with an Intel Celeron N2830, and another D54250WYKH with an Intel Haswell i5-4250U. The former can only take one drive but the latter can have an mSATA as well as a 2.5" SATA. I'd like to use the latter with root on the mSATA SSD and a 2TB HDD for media in the 2.5" SATA, but for some reason I get better video playback on the Celeron than the Haswell. Both are supposed to have hardware acceleration for h264 and the Haswell is a more powerful processor so I don't understand it!
One thing that could help a lot would be have a third drive off one of the USB ports, a cheap large spinning drive, and have a cronjob to routinely copy the contents of your drive to the cheap spinning drive to the backup drive. That way even if you lose your SSD or your SATA drive, you still have a somewhat recent version of all your files elsewhere.
Not a bad idea, however I've had problems with some of the firmware (I think, maybe it's the kernel) on external HDDs causing them to power off when not in use for long periods of time. For some reason it doesn't happen with internal drives so it must be the enclosure or the way the system deals with the drive.