Budget (including currency): $3000 USD
Country: US
Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: PLEX, Discord CraigBot, NAS
i7-11700K or i5-11600K (intel for quick sync for PLEX)
ASUS TUF Gaming Z590-Plus (for 6x SATA and 2.5 Gb Ethernet)
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DR4 3200 (Good price and not bad specs)
2x Crucial MX500 500GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, up to 560 MB/s - CT500MX500SSD1 (Good price?)
Seasonic FOCUS PX-550, 550W 80+ Platinum Full-Modular (Is this enough power for plus 12 16TB hard drives?)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler, 4 CDC Heatpipes (Good price and not)
Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 Full Tower
4x (8 more later) Seagate Exos 16TB Enterprise HDD X18, Are Exos drives better than WD red or ironwolf Pro? Right now they're cheaper for the same listed specs.
My plan is to buy for hard drives now and raid them using my motherboard raid controller. Then in the future if I need more storage buy a raid card and add additional drives.
I'm planning on using Windows 10 pro as the OS that runs everything. I've administered multiple windows servers but never anything else. The cost of the windows key isn't a problem I have tons of Windows 7 pro keys. However, should I try something else I want to be able to run random VM's or containers for random things like a CraigBot server or Minecraft. I currently have 4 Bay WD NAS that's gonna turn into my non Plex content offsite server.
Any assistance or advice is greatly appreciated as I don't know what I don't know.
Thank you!