JackDanl

I wasn't sure if I could use the software control on the lighting or not. Thanks for answering that for me. I am hopeful that I can still do some of the basic lighting etc as it can be setup in the bios.

Thank you giving some advice on the cache drives and have rearranged my proposed build to include 2 SSD drives for cache/Plex , and 1 separate SSD for my VM. As far as adding other VM's there may be one more but that will not be a real on system resources other than memory. I added everything to the build and the only issues that it came up with were that I need at least 2 more SATA connectors as the motherboard only supports 6. But in the process I did discover that the power supply while large enough doesn't come with enough SATA power cables so I will look into alternatives to that issue. As far as I was able to tell, I should be able to use the iGPU for unRAID, and then the Geforce 1060 for the raid,at least I thought I had read that. Any other suggestions that anyone has would be greatly appreciated, as I need to get a NAS back in place very soon.

I am looking to build a new server as my last NAS has bit the dust and left me with blank hard drives now. I need the system to be able to run a couple dockers (Plex, Sonarr, etc) basic media sharing. I will only need be able to stream to 5-6 clients at a time, only transcoding 1 steam. I need it to run Windows 10 for a gaming, Nothing hard core. World of Warcraft, and the like I may have the occasional stream as well. My thought was to use the SSD as a cache drive, a place to store the Plex database, and use it for the Windows 10 VM I have some hardware picked out, but want to verify that everything is compatible and will work correctly before ordering. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K5 AORUS Processor: Intel i7 7700K CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Memory: 32 gb of Corsair Vengeance LPX Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming Power Supply: EVGA Supernova G2 650W HBA add in card: LSI 9211-8I or IBM m1015 Case: NZXT H440 SSD: Crucial MX300 1TB SATA 2.5 5-6 Seagate NAS rated hard drives. UPS: Cyberpower 1500VA/900Watt LX1500GU Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. JackD