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Holy Balls. What are you storing?? I ended up going with Lian-Li PC-D600WB. Going to keep it out of my rack and keep the rack dedicated to networking and some other devices.

Thank you so much for your valuable advice! I did build it with expansion and tinkering in mind so I went a bit higher on the specs but tried to keep the best balance between cost/performance/power consumption as possible. I didn't mention it, but i am specifically looking for a rackmount chassis. It will mount in a rack in my utility room so noise is not so much of a concern but quieter the better. I'll peruse the forums and get a better idea of whats out there. I will probably stick to 24 drives max, but will start with a few and add on as needed. Thanks for the advice on the PSU. I use a power calculator and came up with 426 watts but for some reason didn't trust it and erred on the side of caution. I do agree on the 10 vs 8 at the moment. It's just too much capital for me to put out right now and at around double the cost, it's hard to justify... I sure as hell wouldn't buy a 2TB drive for $180! I do have one more question... Is the performance of an SSD worth the cost for a cache drive? Is there a significant improvement using an SSD vs. a spinner? Thanks again. I will update with my full build specs once i complete it.

Hello fellow hoarders, I'm looking to make a power efficient but powerful enough system to transcode 2-3 1080p streams as well as run radarr, sonarr, and all the fixins. I want to make it as 'green' as possible without sacrificing too much power and potential requirements in the near future. Any input appreciated. This is the basic build list I came up with after spending all day at work (thanks for the help Kyle) and the night at home researching. Please add any comments, extras I may need, caveats, etc. Or just tell me what you think. Case: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00BQY3916/ (NORCO 4U Rack Mount 24) MB: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B018AX44Q4/ (Supermicro Micro X11SSM-F-O) CPU: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B015T3YEZ4/ (Intel Corp. BX80662E31245V5 Xeon Processor E3) RAM: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01DKBPY2E/ 2 x (Kingston Technology ValueRAM 16GB 2133MHz DDR4 ECC CL15 DIMM 2Rx8) PSU: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01HXYRMME/ (Seasonic Flagship PRIME TITANIUM 850 SSR-850TD Active PFC 80 PLUS Titanium 850W ATX ) HDD: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01IA9GU0Q/ x(as needed) (Seagate 10TB IronWolf NAS SATA 6Gb/s NCQ 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive (ST10000VN0004)) Plus a 1TB SSD for caching And if you are wondering why it's smile.amazon.com, always go there... they donate a portion of the purchase to a charity of your choice.