It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/elijuicyjones on 2025-03-02 06:10:58.

My home lab is running on my desktop right now but I finally have some parts available:

an AM4 X570 Mobo, plenty of old cases, a spare PSU, 16GB of ram, a couple of spare 1TB NVMEs, a 1660 Super, and a 3700X. I’m working with existing disks now but the plan is to buy four 10-14 TB disks to start.

so I’m wondering if I have the building blocks I need for a decent home data vault slash plex server slash home lab for running a few dockers and LXMs?

Or should I get a beefier AM4 CPU or GPU and more ram?

Also I know I can run unraid and that sounds appealing but is there anything wrong with just running windows on the whole thing? I guess I’m not sure how NAS functionality and building raids on windows works. It’s easy right? 😂