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  1. Hi guys, I have recently come into possession of 4x 6TB WD Red HDDs and was thinking about building a separate NAS with it. While researching, I came across Unraid and I'm really liking the flexibility and features of it. I have beast mitx build at the moment and am thinking of combining this PC and the drives into a server. Current PC Build CPU: Intel Core i7 8700k Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix Z370-I Gaming RAM: Corsair 16GB DDR4-3200 Memory CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L12S PSU: Corsair SF450 GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Mini ITX Video Card Storage: 2x Samsung - 970 Evo 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive 1x Crucial - MX500 2TB 2.5" Solid State Drive 1x Seagate - BarraCuda 5TB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive What do I currently use my PC for? Music Production: Ableton EDM production with lots of VSTs (Synths and plugins) Gaming Casual CAD design What would I potential use an Unraid server for? NAS Application/Plug-In Server VM Is expandability important to me? I think the drives I have now are more than sufficient. If I would need to expand more than this, I would probably upgrade everything. What do I plan to run for hard drives? Games, Programs, DAW and VST Libraries, CAD files, Music, Pictures, Videos (TV Shows, Movies, Camera Recordings) Upgrade Parts PSU: With the additional drives, I'll need to upgrade my SFX power supply. Case: I'm thinking the Fractal Design Node 304. It keeps it small (which I'm a fiend for) but has a lot of drive capacity. RAM: I'm not sure if I need to upgrade to 32GB. I'm thinking of leaving it at 16GB for now. My Questions What drive configuration should I use? Since I only have 4x SATA ports on the motherboard, I'm unsure of what combination of drives I should contain in the server. The M.2 drives don't take any ports so I can keep those (cache drive in raid 1?). Should I use all the ports for the WD Reds and forget about the 2TB SDD or use 3x of the WD Reds and use the 2TB SDD with the M.2. in an SSD cache pool or something? Would I be getting good performance with the hardware I have, even though it's not server grade? Music Production performance? What would potentially benefit me would be having a VM that has all my VSTS and DAW installed so that I can access it anywhere without having to re-install on new devices. Can this concept be done? I'd have a USB audio interface connected to the server to output audio to my speakers. Could the VM output audio to a USB audio interface that is connected to a laptop running the VM? Would there be huge latency? VM gaming doesn't seem to have latency. Thank you, everyone, in advance. The questions may have been answered before but I can't couldn't find the answer using the search bar, especially the music production ones.