LGA 1700 MATX recommendations
I have decided to go an interesting route with building a Jellyfin/TruNAS server in a 2008 Mac Pro Case. I thought I could get away with a Z690 DDr4 ATX motherboard I got for cheap on Ebay but it will not fit if I plan on keeping the 4 Hotswap HDD bays.
Planned to aquire: i5 14500, 4 HDDs for storage (will aquire when prices become reasonable or settle for smaller storage amount).
What I currently have: Seasonic Focus 750w gold PSU, Arc B50(For transcoding), 16gb of DDR4 RAM (2x8gb), an i3 13100 (that came with the ATX mobo), and an Asus Blu-ray 5.25in drive for when I want to stream my Physical Disc library on my LAN.
My question: H, B, or Z chipset in an MATX form factor. Should I worry about a motherboard with 6 Sata ports or go for a PCIE card as I will need at least 5 ports for the 4 HDDs and 1 for the Blu-ray Drive. I would also imagine there might be needed space for a network card aswell in this rig and pcie slots are going to be limited to what's left after the 2 slot gpu.
Unless I'm mistaken that there will not be much of an issue reusing the stock Apple harness for the HDDs. As this will be running 24/7 do I also need to worry about the motherboard heatsinks for the VRMs as well? Any MATX Motherboard suggestions will appreciated.