House Of Cards

Greetings, So I plan to make the jump from TrueNAS due to their ongoing problems with jails/plugins, and because adding storage space is an expensive task when drives have to all be upgraded to grow the pool. It has been rock solid, but for home use, I think Unraid looks more flexible. The not-so-unique is that I have a 12-bay rack-mounted case to use... I plan to fill it up with drives and utilize more of the plug-in architecture of docker to replace all the other things I have into one server. My general ideas are to use these cheap components, because I don't really have high-demands... Motherboard... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMLJJXS3/?coliid=I3BUEQX5GYW8LF&colid=2D3CNHHDTB8MO&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it SATA Expansion Card... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2WRDXQJ/?coliid=I1ETVYEGVPXPFN&colid=2D3CNHHDTB8MO&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it The primary purpose of this machine will be storage of documents and mapping shares to the devices in my house. One of the other primary functions will be an Emby server running in docker, maybe home assistant, grafana... Basic stuff but all under one machine. Nothing really demanding. NOW, for the unique thing... One idea I've always kicked around in my head was to use Emby to automate my own media server in a more interactive way. What I mean is that most people dump everything in there, and you play it when you want to. I would like to have content change, and this is what I envision... let me know if you have any ideas how best to get started before I delve in and create my own roadblocks. I will have shares for emby... "Feature Films" and "Television Shows", for example... And I will have other shares for Emby like "Limited Engagement Films" and "Limited Engagement Shows"... These will be what is shown in Emby, but it will not be the primary collection of content. I will have main shares of "Movies" and "TV Shows" where I store everything, but would like to make scripts to automatically modify transferring between the two. So imagine December 1st happens... A script would run that copies "A Christmas Story" from the main share ("Movies") to the Emby share of "Feature Films". Now your Emby server would show "A Christmas Story" as recently added just in time for the holidays. Then on December 31st, another script would run deleting "A Christmas Story" from the Emby ("Feature Films") share, and it would still exist in the main "Movies" share to reappear next December. I realize that the scripts would be cumbersome to stay on top of, but my A.D.D. should be able to keep up. What this would do is create something more like a curated server with content that changes constantly. Imagine adding 9/11 documentaries in September, or Jaws every summer... Throw in some campy horror movies in every October... Movies about a tragedy around the time the tragedy happened in real life... Your media center would constantly remain relevant. So I guess the question is do you all have any suggestions on maybe a tool to use to help manage this, or caveats to look out for? I should be ready to order the components shortly, then I'll build and test, then I'll get working on setting everything up... Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks, Steven