creatine

After recently suffering a hard drive failure in my HTPC, I decided to look for a more robust solution for my media storage. The hard drive failure was sudden, SMART monitoring did not detect any issues allowing me to take action. Fortunately I "only" lost 2TB worth of media. My current HTPC has 8 drives of various sizes for a total of 30TB of data. It is directly connected to my TV, runs Windows 10, Media portal with a dedicated GPU \ MadVR for 4K upscaling and HDR pixel mapping. It also runs jellyfin so that I can stream movies to any other device in the home. Coming from an IT background, I am familiar with building systems, storage, etc but less familiar with *nix side of things. I am familiarizing myself with all the things UNRAID can do besides NAS storage. Based on my HTPC config and requirements, can I replace it with an UNRAID system or should I continue to use a dedicated HTPC and build a dedicated UNRAID NAS instead ? Can you suggest an UNRAID build that will allow me to scale past 8 hard drives (ideally 12+) that will keep costs low ? I am in an apartment so do not have space for a server rack \ chassis. I notice there are several "plugins" that can be installed, can you recommend those that are considered a "must have" ? Thanks.