Hi! I already have a mess of a server setup I mostly did experimenting but slowly it’s now building into something bigger so I want to upgrade my storage to where it really should be not a mess of random hard drives and different enclosures. I feel like this is the best small form factor way I can do it but how should I really configure this all? What software/hardware array would yall recommend? I’m still learning but I’ve been tinkering with homelab kinds of creations for a while now and now I want a true homelab setup to actually be using not tinkering with.

Any advice or recommendations would be amazing! I’m trying to do this on a budget but hopefully soon that shouldn’t be an issue.

My current setup is running on my old Ryzen 5 3600 32gb ram on a tuff gaming x570 plus WiFi with a 500w power supply. Way too big for what I really need but it was this or my Pi 5 lol. I have an enclosure with 1tb, 2tb, 4tb, drives in it and then a 2tb usb enclosure. I’m running Zima os (more trying it out then anything serious with it) and my main thing running right now on my server is just Immich for my family. I had it on the pi originally but it was too slow and bugging out for me with that many users. I had windows backup and other things being backed up to the sever until I paused it all to revaluate how and where everything is stored. It’s a mess of a setup I know lol but I want this to be an actual safe thing to trust in not a jank project I’ve been messing around with. Thank you!!