Hey peeps. I'm planning on building a home server some time in the near future and im looking for some guidance. I currently have 2 x 2tb hard drives in my computer so those will be used as storage but i will want some room for expandability. i plan on using it as storage for my home media as well as back ups and will need to be using plugins such as plex and bittorrent sync (or something comparable). As far as a OS it concerned, the main few seem to be windows home server (lack of plugins), freenas (risky without expensive ecc ram), ubuntu home server (complicated to setup, lots of command prompt) and Amahi (smaller user base, there for lack of information). my budget is flexible up intil about 400 or so but obviously the cheaper the better.
Basically what im trying to ask,
What would the be OS be to forfill my needs?
What hardware would be approperiate to run it?
Thanks in advance.