January 23, 20197 yr My goal for this build is to use it as a Plex server and run some dockers to help me manage my Linux (:D) torrents. It would serve 1 or 2 people at most and I have a Roku device, therefore, the transcoding feature will only be used occasionally. Parts that I have Case - Fractal Design Define R5 Black PSU - Cortek Sirius 800W Plus Gold HDD - 5 x Western Digital Red 6 TB (Plan to get 3 more in the near future) SSD - Samsung evo 1TB Parts that I am considering getting Processor - Intel Pentium Gold G5400 Mobo - Gigabyte Aorus B360M Gaming 3 motherboard RAM - Kingston 8GB DDR4 (KVR24N17S8/8) HBA - Dell PERC H200 Is the Gigabyte Aorus B360M Gaming 3 motherboard good enough for this build? All I really need is the 6 x sata ports, and a PCI-E slot to add the hba card for future storage expansion. The additional RAM slot helps too. I'll be getting the mobo used, for around $67
March 10, 20197 yr I think the board will be fine, but I'd go with at least 4 cores (think i3-8100 for example). If you won't be installing a discrete GPU, I'd also scale down the PSU to 400 Watts (800 is total overkill here).
April 16, 20197 yr Before you buy the motherboard, make sure its compatible with the Dell PERC H200 card, my motherboards doesn't recognize the LSI 9201-8i Card.
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