A lot of the SBCs or n150 pcs have limited RAM upgradeability.

You might look at the old HPE Proliant Microservers, like gen8 - gen 10. You can get them with 16GB ram included for $300. They’re low power and they use the cheaper ddr4 ram.

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The $500,000 10U AI server or is there another one?

I still can’t add 3rd party software that isn’t in their App Store

That doesn’t seem right… I think you can use their “Container Station” to make an LXD or Docker container with whatever you want. You may have to enable “advanced mode.” https://www.qnap.com/en-us/how-to/tutorial/article/how-to-use-container-station-3

The whole point of the arrs is to download things in advance. Many users set up Import Lists… There are also apps like Boxarr.

Netflix’s model is to provide the cheapest, low-quality media you can bear to watch. The kind of browsing you are describing is your distressed search to find something watchable. If you populate a server with good TV or at least TV that interests you, you won’t want to hop between media like that.

It’s for movies and tv to “find and fetch missing or upgradable media.” Huntarr was the go-to app but it had security concerns and the maker’s responses were negatively received. In the last couple of weeks, some people have presented AI slop replacements for Huntarr.

As others have said, 1 GB RAM isn’t enough. It also isn’t a good deal. You can get old NUCs for $30-40 with 8 GB.

It is a 45 Drives Stornado F1. A similar used chassis would be a Dell R730xd

I would set up a media server in the old case that fits your drives but set up the game servers on the lenovo.

Plex is fine for people that already have it set up but since you’re starting from scratch why not start with the free one?

Have you already bought a HexOS license? You can do more with Proxmox or TrueNAS for free.

Paying taxes for something doesn’t mean you own it. Even if it did, I doubt the businesses fighting housing today are the same ones that paid the taxes 45-70 years ago.

Setting up an SMB or NFS share is the correct answer because op has stated he plans to use VMs (plural). ZFS is not sharable without it. https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage

There are forum posts going back years about it :https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/share-zfs-storage-between-nodes.144790/ https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/create-a-large-pool-of-shared-zfs-storage.94435/

TrueNAS is not absolutely required. It can be done with a different Linux distro. I use/prefer Debian.