That's one good reason to use a RasPi, the other is just that they are rock solid, almost bulletproof devices you can really trust, as long as you don't hammer the SD card.
Also, they are affordable, small, and low power, and an actually good SSD kinda messes that up.
A cursory google search revealed lots of blogposts, videos etc on doing exactly that.
Also, if you're using an Rpi, it's also because you like tinkering, so more tinkering could be seen as a bonus :)