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If you really MUST use the 8300H, here is a thought:
The 8300H is 4c/8t. Not too bad.
Would I do this? Well you're spending $400USD to $500USD if you don't have parts. You're buying HDD if you don't have them.
You could Craig's List or Facebook MP or even eBay and find a better, more powerful, but still power friendly system with space inside for those drives. I see things for $150 on there with SSDs and often NVMe and space inside for HDD. I mean five SATA motherboard ports is all you need for drives (RAID5 using ZFS).
I would likely go that route vs. making an old, out-of-date laptop (I have 17 of them, I know out-of-date LOL and I love my "kids.") work. If you want to build a Frankenstein, I'm here for it. If you want a working server you'll have (almost?) zero issues with, shop around a little and save money. And headache. (Will the laptop even boot to BIOS screen on external LCD with the main broke?) AND a desktop can easily give you multiple 1Gbps or 10Gbps connections for future use, cheap.
Cheers!
Wow, thanks for the amazing reply!
and wow! I did not expect to have to shell out 400-500 before disks. So I think I'll go along with your suggestion. I'm located in the nordics, so stuff is more expensive, and things are not as available. In the 200-300 range, I mostly find 6th gen intel gaming rigs. I did find a ryzen 3900x rig for 400, that comes with a gpu and 6 sata slots. So I think that would be better value than an external 5 bay enclosure.
I just thought I could drop 100-200usd and have a nice setup, but I guess I didn't know the cost of stuff. Thanks for steering me in the right direction!
I think over in the EU you're going to find that the stuff I buy on the low end on Amazon and eBay here in the States is likely even more money for you. That Ryzen 3900x if you can get it pretty cheap will do everything you need to do and so much more. And you'll save money over an external bay which is the big cost hog in this whole mess.
And if it has a decent GPU you could use that for transcoding in Plex and jelly then if that's an interest and you could also make good use of those SATA slots.