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@itimpithis was the answer for me. I had forgotten that I had initially disabled eth0 for which is a 1gb nic for my eth2 which is a 2.5gb nic. When I was resetting from a corrupt USB stick and I tried deleting the network info out went that rule and why it wouldn't connect. thanks.

@itimpiSO is the point of renaming it to basically make the file be a backup and have the system create a new one as if you had just deleted it? Cause I have tried to delete network.cfg multiple times and the server keeps booting up giving me a 169.254 address.

@JorgeB I think I am having this same issue but what am I supposed to rename it to?

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You have basically hit the 2 cases I would of recommended for your use case.

Redundancy is always a good idea. If you can afford it do it. As for the size. There are more factors that have to be considered for this. Some OSs take more space then others. i.e. pure Linux is much smaller then Windows 10 or MacOS. Same with Dockers some containers are larger then others. It is really a case by case basis. Also you have to consider will there be anything else in the future that you want to run off of those NVME drives and do you need to assign space to a share or make your VM drive pool larger to accommodate that? Personally I would say buy a 1TB unit. They are super cheap now, especially if you buy 3.0 instead of 4.0.

It depends on the type of editing you are going to do. Especially if you are doing anything above 30 secs in resolutions of 4K or higher and/or RAW you will be struggling in the timeline to live play and probably spend hours in rendering the final project. I would buy a better CPU, at least 32GB of RAM, and add a dedicated GPU. But of course do what you can afford. If its going to cost to much to go that much higher then get what you can. Something is better then nothing.

Typical rule of thumb you want to keep the parity and array disk HDD and only use SSD for Cache.

Just about any newer motherboard and processor should do the trick for you. My new build mentioned below would work but its a little over kill if you are only running plex. I am running multiple VMs plus dockers like plex.

Cant seem to find anyone else that has had this issue so seeing if anyone has any advice. In my new build I have ASUS AMD AM4 ROG Strix X570-F Gaming ATX Motherboard / G.SKILL Trident Z Neo Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) / MasterLiquid ML360 Mirror ARGB Close-Loop AIO CPU Liquid Cooler. All 3 have RGB. I am able to turn off the RGB of the mother board in BIOS but can not seem to find out how to get the ram and AIO cooler RGB to turn off. I have tried P3R-OpenRGB but it only seems to recognize the motherboard and my mouse and keyboard. Am I just missing some pass through setting to get the docker to recognize the other parts? Or is there some other way?

In my experience this is a really hard ask... The chances of spending $300-$400 for everything on your list is next to impossible. Really Ebay is your only option and you will still have to make certain mods and compromises to get what you want in that budget. So you might want to scour Ebay and buy it yourself and then have the husband just hide it from you till Christmas. Maybe it is time to upgrade the size of a few of your drives instead of doing a chassis transplant. Best of Luck!

Walmart is super sketch online... They have so many random retailers on there that you could be looking at some wish.com level garbage card. Sure the 1050Ti is an older card but with the microchip shortage the way it is everything is hard to find and it being a cheap Chinese knock off is the only reason I would think you could find a 1050Ti for only $100 brand new.

I love and hate everything about this suggestion. unraid in an unraid... can you say unraid-ception!!! This may be a dumb thought on my part... but I wonder how well this would work. My bigger concern would be hardware allocation. Like how would it react to seeing a processor that it wont have full allocation ability for. I mean other VMs do it just fine. But would the Unraid OS space know how to handle it?

JorgeB I appreciate the response. Looks like a 9305-24i is what I am looking for. Sadly that card is so much more expensive then Adaptec ASR 72405 that I was looking at before. Are there any post that discuss the issues with using a RAID card like that and just setting it to see each disk as JBOD? That was my initial idea. Maybe I go with the 9305-24i and just not use a backplane. Loose hot swapping but that's not the end of the world. Or maybe I get the backplane and start off smaller with like an 8 port LSI card. Not like I have the money to populate all 24 drive bays right at the start. I could upgrade the LSI card in a year or so when I am ready to add more drives then it supports. What are your thoughts?

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