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For just a media server this is way over kill. You could go with a lower tier motherboard. You could get a stripped down motherboard for 70 bucks or cheaper. You dont need a rayzn 5 you could go cheaper there too. If all youre doing putting all your movies and music on a system and making it a server go to your local pawn shop and pick up anything you can get for 150 - 200 bucks and start from there. My home media "server" is a window 2000 machine ive kept running for close to 20 years now. You dont need much.

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Good to know. Thanks. I'll look at cheaper I suppose.

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For real. You might just beef up your data link in the rig like i did, i put a 1gb cable card in and a direct link to the router for faster com speeds but as far as a system is concerned you wondlt notice much of a difference in performance if your in thr same house streaming off your server. If your outside the house dialing in it might buffer but just let it load in for a few minutes and youll never have a problem. I have about 30tb of shit thats been on there for 20 years and i can watch movies anywhere i want where i can get an internet connection.

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I want something that will be able to real-time encode 1080p / 2k / 4k to something lower for upload bandwidth reasons.

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https://www.newegg.com/startech-com-hsb43satsasb/p/N82E16817998271?item=N82E16817998271&source=region&nm_mc=knc-googleadwords-pc&cm_mmc=knc-googleadwords-pc-_-pla-_-accessories+-+hard+drive-_-N82E16817998271&gclid=EAIaIQobChMImLiuyLbJ7wIVdP_jBx1F0QAJEAQYBSABEgL9a_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I used a hdd bay similar to this in my last homebrew NAS build. It will give you 4 drives for 3 3.5" drive slots in a case. And the bays are hot-swappable.

As everyone else has stated, Ryzen is overkill. The Synology NAS I bought has an Intel Atom in it and it works perfectly. Only thing I did was add more ram and a 10gb fiber card. Of course you can just add in a Nic and team the ports to get better throughput.

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If you're looking for cheap, maybe check out a refurb. Clean it up, couple of new hard drives, and you should be golden.

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Ideally sub $600 or so where the most is spent on decent HDDs + 1 NVME m2 drive.

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https://www.newegg.com/hp-elitedesk-8300-student-home-office/p/1VK-001E-18U12?Description=refurb&cm_re=refurb-_-1VK-001E-18U12-_-Product&quicklink=true

I don't know what kind of expansion you're looking for, but there's room for at least one hard drive already, and if you drop the dvd drive, you can get a bracket that supports a 3.5 and a 2.5 drive. It's unlikely that you'll be getting a computer this way that has nvme support, but if you're set on using an ssd for the operating system, you could easily get away with a sata variant.

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Oh interesting.

Never thought of going this route. I'd prefer 2 full 3.5" HDD with room for a 2.5" SSD - that clearly can't do M.2, which is fine because the speed increase for M.2 isn't really that necessary for personal use server OS drive.

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wat?

That thing can support a displayport out? WTF? DP output is 4k, is it not?