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@MadOver @mrbilky @AncientNerd @brob @Douglas The Duck Thank you all for the feedback and recommendations, gotta do some serious thinking, meanwhile more options and recommendations are welcome. Thanks again.

High-performance home server/workstation build Hi everyone, I am new to the forum and the whole PC building stuff, therefore excuse my novicehood! First of all, do you think it is even a good idea to build a two-in-one home server and a high-performance workstation or am I better-off building two separate machines? Below are details about what I have in mind for this build, I appreciate your recommendation in the question marks area or anywhere else for that matter. Uses: Fast NAS Photo editing Powerful Media server – 4K movies, Dolby ATMOS and DTS: X audio encoding Media streaming over the home network Maybe occasional AutoCAD and 3d Max OS and Software: UnRaid Virtual Machines (Win10, maybe MacOS or Linux just for fun!!) Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop PLEX server Hardware: CPU: Intel Xeon? iCore? or AMD EPYC? RYZEN? Motherboard: Supermicro? or ASUS? Model? RAM: Min 32Gb Brand? Reg ECC? Cache Disk: Min 512Gb PCIe? M.2? NVMe? SSD Storage: Min 12Tb - 3x 4Tb WD Red? GPU: ?? Network: 10Gbit and WiFi Case: ?? Cooling: ?? Power Supply: ?? Others: ?? Budget: I am not sure what is a reasonable budget for the above? Is $2,000-$2,500 sound reasonable? Anyhow, I am a bit flexible as far as the budget concern. Thanks in advance, and looking forward to your suggestions.