jfat

yeah thats fair, where I am the difference is like 40 pounds which crosses the line of not being worth it. Whats the price like on the MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX? that one seems to be recommended a fair bit. If you need mATX then the MSI B450M MORTAR MAX seems to be up there too.

Dont even worry about getting the x variant, just get the 3600. Unless the price difference is negligible to you.

My Nas specs are: Asrock e3c232d21 mobo 16gb (2 sticks) ecc ddr4 ram g4400 cpu 6x wd red 3tb I currently use the corsair sf600 psu. Its totally overkill but I have it because my friend didnt need it and gave me a good deal. I recently got the silverstone sfx st30sf. Im confident 300w will easily power it, but any opinions there? I may change my cpu in the future to a xeon (e3 1230v5) but 300w would still be alright, right? Also any noticeable difference money wise with the difference in efficiency?

Plex would probably make the process easier, im not sure on how to set it up myself though so couldnt really guide you on it. ECC ram isnt necessary, its recommended because with ZFS an error in the memory could cause file corruption. For you use case it probably isnt necessary, depends if you care about your data enough to risk it. If its just stuff you can redownload or whatever I wouldnt care... You should have an extra backup for important stuff anyway.

Your ram isnt ECC and your cpu doesnt support ECC btw.

Setting up external access is possible but a bit more difficult. You can also set up a plex server on it through the freenas jails.