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So RAID cards aren't needed? Future Me: yup, a google search seems to confirm that a RAID card should not be used if running FreeNas. Thanks, I didn't know that. So the only difference between a regular gaming PC and a personal server is that the OS will be different (FreeNas/Unraid instead of Windows) and potentially an HBA add in card if I have more hard drives than my motherboard has SATA ports?? If so, this seems like something I could tackle. The only learning curve would be learning how to configure the RAID OS?

Yeah, I've got a $20,000 home theater, so I'm quite confident I actually could tell a difference. Keeping file size as is because I want to keep the digital info lossless.

Thanks. I looked up the link you sent. Its a very high level overview comparison. The server build guide is just a PC build guide that's out of date and doesn't include a RAID card... Not quite specific enough for what I need.

That sounds about right. Unfortunately I have no experience choosing components or configuring software. Is there a how-to guide for dummies on this topic? I didn't see anything current on youtube.

Hey team, hoping this community can provide some high quality advise regarding my data storage problem. What's the best solution for a digital movie collection of 48TB? Average file size of .mkv 4k blurays is 60GB. Currently I have a total of four 12TB hard drives (two Western Digital Gold and two Western Digital Ultrastar drives, 3 of the 4 drives are completely full) installed via SATA to an Asrock Z390 Taichi motherboard which pulls double duty as my gaming PC. Note, nothing is currently in RAID, so I have zero redundancy, and I've been getting a lot of latency and stutters when playing back files via JRiver Media Center. Obviously this isn't ideal. Note, I do not have any experience with UnRaid or other similar programs. I was thinking of buying a Synology DiskStation DS1819+ which has 8 drives bays and is expandable through additional external enclosures, and upgrading it with a 10GB add-in networking card (my Z390 motherboard also has a 10GB LAN port), 32GB of RAM, and an M.2 NVME cache drive. Probably going to pay around $1,500 for that. This could be populated with more 12TB drives in RAID 5. Is this a good option, or should I try building a server? I can build PCs but I don't have any experience with choosing RAID cards or running RAID software. Thoughts?? Thanks!

Anybody know what brand of headphone stand Linus is using in the video? I've been wanting a good one for awhile now. Obviously I'm talking about the black metal one, not the mannequin head...