Yes, that’s what I am considering, at the moment. But I will go for Dell or Lenovo, don’t want anything HP. Maybe with a Xeon and ECC RAM, for about 150 euros.

Why Unraid in particular? I know it’s a paid OS, which makes me wonder why go that route. I think I would rather have a simples SMB share in a linux environment, instead of paying for something like that.

I don’t think it would be much cheaper. Because it’s a micro PC, with an external power supply, I’d rather keep that one as is and then just buy a new machine.

For example, I saw a Dell Precision T3620 Intel Xeon E3-1245V5 with ECC memory for about 160€, and it looks like it may do the job more than adequately.

As of right now, I live in a small studio, so noise is an important factor, forgot to mention that. I thought about server chassis but for them to be cheap enough, they will also be expensive and power hungry. So I was leaning more towards tower builds.

Because the Dell 7050 is a micro computer with only a 2.5 HDD slot. I would like to have at least 4.