I currently have a plex server with about 20 drives (don’t judge) spread over a tower and a Supermicro disk shelf. Also have a Nvidia P2000 hand a list HBA and a mini sas card. I think it’s causing some pci errors though it does work consistently. With both the tower and the diskshelf, I feel like it uses too much power for essentially just plex. I have been on both eBay and aliexpress and I can get a Supermicro 846 used with 1200 watt redundant power supplies or buy a new norco 4 u case. Surprisingly the norco is about 200-300 more but I can use a super efficient power supply. I plan to go to a intel 12 gen chip with igpu and use quicksync for transcoding. Of course I can do the same with the Supermicro but it has the redundant power supplies and a lot louder and presumably run hotter. I asked ChatGPT, we had a long conversation and I am more confused now lol.

I thought I would ask experts Of course I could get Kodi and a Netflix sub and call it a day.