thank you for your comment and the details you provided. so thats where the virtualization comes into picture right? I’m not planning to give drive access to all the pods running in this server. I have an SSD lying around for temp storage. Say, i’d hoard some stuff then either i’ll manually move them to RAID area or probably do some batch jobs to do that. I also use ProtonVPN so that should be one layer of protection. I’m not sure if i’ll set up a firewall too but i guess we’ll see down the line. I’m guessing i’ll need to add additional network card for that. I didn’t get what you meant by high spec games but basically %90 of the storage will be internal LAN only. whats the best practice on these?

thank you. i know its a bit overkill now but like you said, i was aiming for growth. the PCI slots are all empty now. I’ll see if i’ll be adding extra storage, network card or GPU… thanks for your comment