I recently ordered a GMKTec NucBox G3 with an Intel N100 and will order 32GB of ram for it.

For now I will use an external 256GB SSD and install proxmox onto it, however, I want to add media storage. I have a 2TB hard drive full of media + a 480GB SATA SSD also full. I want to buy a 4TB NAS drive for it and move everything from those 2 drives to that.

How would you go about adding storage? An external HDD case? An NVME to SATA controller? I want some suggestions.

I just ordered a GMKTec G3 with an Intel N100. I ordered the barebones version so I can customize it as I see fit. Il start out with a 32GB stick and a random 256GB Sata SSD connected via USB as the main drive (plus a 480GB as a media drive thats already full). Il then install a 2TB NVME SSD.

Anway, how would you guys go about setting up a server on the software side? Personally I was thinking of installing Debian (or Arch since I am way more familiar with that, the OS doesn't really matter anyway) and running all services in docker containers. Would you guys do the same or would you, say, take the ProxMox approach?

I'm sure the N100 with 32GB of RAM can handle most things thrown at it, including a minecraft server for a few players so im not too worried there (right?).

Edit: After all the replies I think you guys have convinced me to try proxmox. I will when the mini pc arrives in like 3 weeks. For anyone wondering, I currently host pihole + unbound on my Pi Zero 2 W directly on bare metal. I used to host more but the Pi couldn't take it. I am planning to host homeassistant, which would be good to run on its own VM, some kind of torrent web ui, file sharing, cloud, and a minecraft server just to name a few.

I want to build this budget home server using a motherboard + CPU + ram combo from AliExpress. The combo comes with 32GB of ECC RAM and a Xeon E5 2680 V4 14 core 28 thread CPU. I will only plug one or two hard drives to it + some ssds and a GT 1030 for video out.

I found a Be Quiet Pure Power 11 400W for a good price (60 bucks). Should be enough, right? CPU can only really draw 150W, and the GPU 30W. Other components add a little more, but it should be plenty?