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Thank you for the hints, guys. There`s been much change in the technology in the last years I wasn't aware, and I made a wrong purchase which doesn't suite my needs. I have decided on short term to: sell A320M-A PRO Max motherboard re-use the CPU, GPU, power supply (current 600W), HDD, memory buy another second hand motherboard which supports the existing CPU - Asus Prime B450 Plus AM4 ~65 euro 6 SATA ports SATA 5/6 are shared with M.2 device, im not yet sure if I would be using that, the format is new for me. 1 additional PCIe lane x16 buy the cheapest enclosure I can find Gamemax Fortress TG -> ~40 euro buy a PCIe expander SAS/SATA to get 4 more additional HDD slots If my understanding is correct that would get me 6+4 => 10 HDDs. The 10HDDs as storage + the GTX 1660 SUPER hopefully will be sufficient to stream 4k on Plex + transcode for Frigate cameras, reaching my end-goal. I kindly ask for a feedback from the community before I made any changes, thank you!

Hello, I have bought an old used gaming pc running: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU GTX 1660 SUPER GPU A320M-A PRO Max motherboard HDD 320GB with the goal to install unRaid running HomeAssistant, Plex Media Server, Frigate from 4 video cameras and since it was second-hand it was rather cheap. Well, it has been more than 15 years since I checked the market, but it seemed after 2 movies and 1 tv series I ran out of storage had no idea nowadays movies are so space consuming beasts. I would like to understand what my options are to add additional storage HDDs to the system. Unfortunately, the motherboard has only 2 PCIe slots and 1 is used by the GPU and the 2nd one is so close-by that is completely covered by the GPU, it is very annoying that I cannot use it. Thank you!