Thank you very much for the reply.
Helps me alot to hear your experience!
Did you update the bios before installing the cpu, or could you boot and update bios with that cpu? Mainly asking to avoid having to buy a second cpu just to update the bios.
Yeah, I was considering the noctura fans aswell. But will try the stock first, and then update if I feel like it. Also planned to put in bios and use fan-profiles as you said.
I am also planning to run nextcloud, plex, and possible an VM in the future. Depending on how it goes.
How was the upgrade of the parity drive? Smooth? As I am planning to start with a 6TB parity drive, but in the future I would probably upgrade or even add a second parity drive as my storage grows.