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That’s a good thought. Any suggestions? I’d love something like this that had more 3.5 drive options: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811112594

Bummer. The 804 doesn’t come in white and I had my heart set on a white case. It’s so hard to find a square white case to hold 6x 3.5 drives

Yes that’s what it was… it limited SATA use and I didn’t want that. I was thinking about offloading Sata and M2 to another card, but the case only had 2 pcie slots and I’m going to need one for a GPU eventually

Good question, I wanted to use 2 M2 drives but I read there were some issues with using both M2 slots on the motherboard… something involving lower PCIe performance or something. I forget where I read it at now though

So I'm building an unRAID box to be my Plex box and torrent seedbox and run a - in addition to a few other containers; and run a Windows 10 VM from time to time when I need to. My current build is listed here https://pcpartpicker.com/list/VVRLTJ I chose this Intel CPU because intel QuickSync to help with transcoding Plex streams and I will add a discrete GPU What I need help narrowing down is: 1. A good PCI-e x16 M2 card with 2+ slots for NVME SSD's I’ve settled in the fractal design Node 304 case. It was crazy hard to find a good, square, white case but I think this one will do. It was one of the only ones I could find anyway. It's been a while since a built a PC (19 years lol) so I'm a bit rusty on looking for parts and I don't know the modern sites to go to for this. Thanks so much!!

Ok so I’m VERY new to unRAID. My current setup is a 12 TB synology DS412+ (yes I know, super old) as my storage and an M1 Mac Mini for compute. I want to do a complete 360 - sell the Mac Mini and do an unRAID build. Right now my current setup is mostly used as a Plex server and Homebridge with tons of transcoding (4+ streams usually). That being said… 1st can you help validate my approach? I’m taking this approach to not spend too much money at one time. Initially I’m building to replace my Plex and Homebridge server… my plan is to run Plex and Homebridge containers respectively… over time I’d like to upgrade so I can take advantage of VM’s (Linux and windows 10) and even more simultaneous containers and maybe even gaming some time down the road with future CPU/GPU upgrades. So the build below reflects phase 1 - Plex with transcoding ability and Homebridge. The thing I’m trying to decide on is a motherboard for future proofing and a CPU (and cooler) that saves on money that I can upgrade over time (because the mobo is future proofed). Case Fractal Design Meshify 2 White - $139 CPU AMD Ryzen ?? Motherboard X570 Motherboard ?? Memory Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 DRAM Desktop Gaming Memory Kit 32GB (16GBx2) - $175.99 Cache 0 1x Samsung 860 Evo 1TB GB M.2-Solid State Drive (MZ-N6E1T0BW)- $130 Cache 1 1x Samsung 860 Evo 1TB GB M.2-Solid State Drive (MZ-N6E1T0BW)- $130 SAS/SATA Card SAS9211-8I 8PORT Int 6GB Sata+SAS Pcie 2.0 - $150 Storage (Main) 3x Western Digital (Shucked) 8 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive - $540 Storage (Parity) 1x Western Digital (Shucked) 8 TB 3.5" 5400 Internal Hard Drive - $179.99 Power Supply EVGA Supernova 650 GT, 80 Plus Gold 650W - $79.99 Operating System Unraid Plus - $89.00 Total so far: $1480 Hardware Considerations: A motherboard that supports 2 M.2 drives OR enough PCI Slots to support an M.2 card, SAS card, and GPU My apologies if some of this is table stakes. Like I said I’m super new to unRAID and I also haven’t built a PC in almost 20 (yes I’m old) years so I’m coming back into the game again relearning everything. Thanks so much in advanced for the help!!