I love to be contrary. And I try to take safe, redundant approaches. So...
Networks, especially if you use WiFi, like USB, are somewhat unreliable, and sometimes mess up. And sometimes drives crash, when an operating system gets confused, or at end of life, and you lose everything, especially if you use something like NTFS format, which has file permissions. Despite what people say about the advantages of "journaled file systems", exFAT is less likely to have a catastrophic loss, in my experience, though you can still lose small amounts, and sometimes you need to run a disk check after a crash. I wouldn't be surprised if ext4 is fairly good too - though it has permissions, and is journaled, which might mess you up if a system dies, but at least it isn't NTFS, and with a little effort, I think you can overcome the nasty permissions problem on ext4, unlike modern Windows NTFS.
But - why use a networked drive at all?
I like a tray that takes swappable SATA hard disk drives (some claim to be hot-swappable, though I choose to turn systems off and unplug them before swapping drives, to be safe). They are much more reliable than USB drives. Ideally, you want two swappable drives, for redundancy, one that an be in the system permanently. Just in case a virus or worm happens - most of the time the second drive shouldn't be in the system. (BTW, an SSHD - solid state hybrid drive - is part SSD, part HD, so is not really more reliable than a HD. For that matter SSDs are more reliable mechanically, but for long term archiving, HDs are more reliable, so say many sources. But neither is likely to last you much longer than 10 years, which is why you want two copies.) Having two independent copies on alternate media gives you a way out if one copy goes bad. I don't know anything about RAID drives - maybe they eliminate the reliability problem? But not the potential virus/worm problem, or the power surge drive killer problem.
It's cheaper to avoid USB drives too - which might pay for the second redundant drive. But the second redundant drive drives can be a (solid state) flash drive, maybe even a USB, but doesn't have to be an expensive SSD. (Top honest size for USB flash drives, AFAIK: 256 GB. You may need more than one. AFAIK, drives with more don't really have more - they over-write one file with another, and you lose stuff.) In which case the hard drive doesn't need to be in a swappable tray, which is easy to move from system to system, is more quiet, and is not damaged by bumpy rides in cars.
You can pay for cloud storage of large files substantially cheaper than your own storage - but you have to trust the remote cloud system, and you have to hope the web storage server doesn't decide any of your stuff is isn't licensed (how would they know?), and also doesn't replace any of your content with something else with somewhat similar content. (The second problem is one many, many professional musicians have found - e.g., their own carefully crafted performance of a piece is replaced by another performer's rendition, without warning, because the cloud system - or Microsoft Windows - thinks they are the same.) Nonetheless, if you had to transport your recording onto something that didn't have a USB port - e.g., some Apple smartphones - cloud storage of part of your collection - maybe just onto Google Drive - is an option.
If you can avoid it, don't run Windows on your main system. It crashes too often, and every once in a while, formats change, and suddenly other computers, or restored versions of Windows, can't read your files. Also, the recycle bin eventually becomes "corrupt", and, AFAIK, that condition cannot be cleared, no matter what you do, and you cannot undelete files, and maybe can't recover deleted file space. I've had this happen multiple times (especially with NTFS), and have almost given up on it for this sort of thing. In my experience, the most common cause of full Windows crashes is Windows Update, because Microsoft sometimes makes mistakes, but sometimes HD and SSD drives fail too. (HDs at about 10 year intervals with heavy use; SSD's and SSHDs supposedly at about 5 or 6, depending on size and type, though I haven't enough experience with the latter to speak from personal knowledge.) Since I started using computers in the 1970's I haven't personally had a virus or worm subversion, so with proper care they must be less common, but I know people, somewhat less careful, who have had them too, and I have had power surge drive deaths, despite UPS and surge protectors, so redundancy is a good idea. And like I said, there is the Windows alternate version file replacement problem. (In many ways I love the user friendliness of Windows - but it has gotten worse and worse over the years, and become less and less reliable and harder to manage. Though I'm sure some here would disagree.)
I don't have extensive experience with any Apple OS's, so cannot say if they have any similar problems.
Keep your system in a separate partition, ideally a different disk, from your data, and use Clonezilla to back it up. Again, just in case of a virus or worm, power surge, or something goes wrong. All you have to replace is a new copy of Linux, or whatever, and it's free. Make sure your swap and boot partitions are large enough for future growth. I like the the swap partition to be be way oversized - say 32 GB. And I think you want at least 16 GB RAM, though 8 GB is probably enough for reliable Linux. Again, for future growth.
BTW, a massively oversized UPS/surge protector for at least the main PC itself is a great idea. It won't protect against everything, and with the brand I've used, APC, they didn't make good on the 3rd party component warranty that failed during a storm, despite over a year of correspondence and a lot of paperwork, but it is still a good idea. Storms happen. Test the battery once in a while - they go bad too.
All That said, if you need rapid sharing between two networked computers, e.g., if you have TVs in multiple rooms that you want to share stuff without moving the redundant USB drive, drive sharing may make sense, despite me.
Anyway, think hard before going to a network drive, and before using a USB drive for your principle storage. There may be better options.
I have wondered whether a reasonably high end ($60-$70, supporting higher resolution TVs than you have) Android TV box, with external drive storage, would be better than a PC. You just move the entire Android TV box from TV to TV, as needed, or move the external drive to a laptop or tablet if needed. (I would still want redundant extra drive backup.) Sure, some IPTV websites won't run on Android TV, but that is becoming less and less common. If you need a TV tuner, get one with a TV tuner; if you need one with a satellite tuner, get one with that - though I haven't used Android TV with any tuner, but people say it works. Android TVs are cheaper than PCs. Maybe they are good enough?
BTW, PC's, with full keyboards and trackballs or mice, will always be easier to use than Android TV. It supports both too, but sometimes you have to click on something on the screen instead of using the keyboard, and the Android TV versions of Firefox and Chrome are less full featured than the PC version in general, but I might be able to live with that. Also, Android 10 has some screen/audio capture programs which let you record stuff that the remote servers don't make it easy to record. I'm going to give it a try.
But I don't know for now if Android TVs do everything I want.
