Do you have a spec list? Because I have no ability to take what you said and translate it into a working machine, but I do have the ability to order from Amazon or NewEgg and assemble.
I also have two R730s that I'm considering turning into NAS and Plex setups, but I keep reading that I'll be sorry. So...tell me what I want instead.
I'm happy to sell the 730s. I don't know how to use them anyway.
But kinda I'm hanging on by my thumbs with your list.
This is the CPU, I'm pretty sure.
These are motherboards. Is one better than another?
I'll Google this. Disk management software?
Wait. I just bought 256GB of RAM for one of the 730s. How is this getting away with 16GB?
I have several computer cases from when full-size desktops were common. Should I just re-purpose one of them, or are new cases better?
Will a setup like this run several streams at once? There are probably four max in my house at any one time and two to three from outside the house. It's rare that all will go at once, but I'd like to be able to do it when they want.
Also my Plex instances will lag regularly on some shows--Bob's Burgers is a serial offender. I assume it's got something to do with the file quality or encoding, but that's the genesis of the 730s--if it's a hardware issue, I thought overkill was the way to go. I guess the point is I'm happy to sell those 730s and build a box to do the job...I just want to make sure I'm building the right box.
It's also going to be a NAS for pictures and important files, but mainly it's a media server for Plex. Or...I could use the existing NAS for that purpose. That'd be efficient.