I know this isn’t build a pc, but everything over there is so gaming oriented I thought I might get better advice here.
I’m a noob that wants a home media server for sharing photos of my kids with my family (across the country), video library sharing to some family members, and streaming my music collection to my phone (and maybe my dad’s).
But I’m considering ripping my father in laws extensive bluray collection (well seeing it up so he can rip them into my library) so I reckon a full tower is required for HDDs.
I’m imagining unraid, with a big pile of used drives. What I like about that approach is that I can economically add storage as the video library grows as I/we rip. Or are used HDDs a false economy.
I think the only processing intensive thing in the use case list is ripping and video library sharing. I have no concept of what sort of processing is required. Should I get a graphics card?
There’s a Lenovo TS-140 (E3-1226 V3) available available used for $80 Canadian. Is that a good place to start?
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