Building a new server, what can I carry over?
I'm relatively new to unRAID, but I've been running some version of a media server on this Dell Optiplex 7050 with 2TB of HDD as my array, a 4TB external parity drive, and 1TB NVMe SSD as my cache.
Obviously this is a fairly cobbled together setup, but very soon I'll be bumping up against my 2TB limit and I'm looking into expanding.
My options, as I see them, are to either buy a prebuilt 4-bay NAS or build my own. In either case, I'd have to buy the HDDs.
What from my Optiplex can I use to jumpstart building my own NAS? I'm thinking that if I can use my current processor/motherboard/ram then I can put the money I would've spent on that towards storage.
As mentioned above, I'm just using this to run a Jellyfin server at home and occasionally access it remotely through Tailscale, so I don't know that I'd benefit much from the latest/greatest CPU anyways.
I'd appreciate any feedback or thoughts you might have. Am I thinking about this the right way? I know the best thing to do would be to wait for component prices to go back down, but who knows when that'll be. If the answer is go prebuilt, any recommendations? Or, conversely, any recommendations for building my own?