So I have had the http://www.coolermaster.com/case/full-tower/cosmos-1000/ running my windows since 2009 using a Asus P5K and intel Q6600. Thinking of ditching my HP Microserver and 2nd machine to create a single unraid build.

 

Was thinking of taking everything out then starting fresh with a Supermicro mobo and possibly a Xeon CPU. I have pretty decent OCZ 800W psu.

 

That I can keep in it, only issue with with current mobo is lack sata ports etc. My Case can actually support about 11 drives so might aswell make use of it.

 

If I really wanted later im sure I could quite easily get a load more in there.

 

Any suggestions would be helpful.

 

UK Based links if any please

What would you want to be able to do with the combined build?  That case can probably support anything you'd want to do, for a recommendation about CPU, motherboard, etc. the devil's in the details of what you'd expect the combined system to do...

The issue im facing with running 2 builds of unRAID I know have 2 machines constantly on, when Plex runs it getting video data from another machine that appears to result in transcoding even on internal network.

 

Hopefully a Single Build will resolve these issues and I can make use of my exiting case to its full potential.

 

The old P5K, Q6600 may just go in a cupboard or a smaller case. Then I will just run windows 10 in a VM.

 

I do have the option to use 19" rack mount solution but cost will quickly rise.

 

I want to be able to run Plex (around 10 clients not all at once - direct play internal network 1gb), run win10 on VM, various dockers to automate downloads (currently downloading on windows machine then copying files over to unraid. Want to be able to rip blue ray disks (1-click solution), openvpn-as just to start with.