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Thank you Stephan. Most helpful and interesting. I need to get my brain around that.

To clarify my out of depth comment, I'm out of my depth in terms of what is available now and what is possible now. I used to be Unix sysadmin but it was long time ago. My solution will defintely not be Windows based. I got burnt by Microsoft abandoning WHS and I'm never going back to that. Most...

Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure I can get my brain around what you are saying but to clarify I don't want anything left on Gmail or Yahoo. At the moment I use POP3 to download and delete everything online as soon as it is downloaded. That works great for a single PC but I can't see any way...

That was the whole point of my question. I don't want to use the SMTP part. I just want to fetch email and read it whilst leaving SMTP to my email client and use Yahoo/Google for SMTP as I do now. My question is whether or not I can do that?

I am looking to run a home email server and also host internal Bitwarden. At the moment I am using Yahoo and Google and I intend to keep doing this but I want an internal email system for two reasons: I have various systems that can send email alerts and I don’t want to send those externally...

Thank you for your comprehensive reply. I've been doing a lot of reading and my brain hurts!!!! TrueNAS Scale seems like the best option as Jellyfin and TVheadend are both available at TrueCharts. From all the reading I have done there is just one thing I can't work out. Do Apps on TrueNAS...

Thanks for all the info. I have an old Asus motherboard with an Intel 2500k cpu. The motherboard doesn't have enough Sata ports but I wonder if it is worth getting a PCIe card to expand the number of ports and use Ubuntu server. The logic being I can experiment and see what works okay. The...

Can you refer me to stuff to read on SAS and the differences to SATA?

That is really good news.

I think the PC-A75 is just a bigger version of the PC-A17. I also love the old Lian Li cases and can't understand why they don't still make them. I wish I had bought a few PC-A17 when they were available. I was also trying to buy some Caselabs cases when they went bust apparently due to Trumps...

Really? They have a circuit board on the ones I have.

I've answered some of the questions above. With regard to budget I don't have anything in mind. I'm more interested in what the options are. At the moment I just know I'm going to run out of disk space soon. As I'm in the UK options are limited. When I look at the US there are loads of options...

I'm afraid I don't understand the difference between Sata and SAS. I have an HP N54L microserver and it has one connection on the motherboard. I thought that was mini-SAS? I tried searching for an article explaining it but failed to find anything. I just would like to minimise cabling. With...

I'm more interested in whether the change from 3G to 6G makes a difference on a server runnning something like TrueNAS?

I plan to build a new server. I have some old Lian Li EX33 (I think that is the part) hot-swap type disk caddies/backplane. I've been trying to find out if these are Sata II or Sata III but I can't find the info. I really like these as they are well made and support 120mm fans. Is Sata II fast...

I'm looking for an ATX server motherboard with onboard mini-SAS (at least I think that is what it is called). Need to support 9 hard disks. Tried looking at Supermicro website but couldn't find an option to search for mini-SAS and I've no idea what the latest tech is i.e latest cpu, chipset...

I' like to get the Lian Li PC-A17 Black Aluminium Mid Tower Case version of that case. Been looking for a while. Anyone know where to find one in the UK?

I wish I lived in that area. I'm in the UK and can't find any used Lian Li

I tried to build a new server a while ago but gave up as I couldn't seem to find the right thing. So I installed TrueNAS on my old HP N54L microserver with 5 4TB drives. That has been a good stop gap but now I am running out of space. There used to be loads of great tower cases from Lian Li and...

It's an old ATX case that was made before mini-ITX even existed so there are no mounting points for mini-ITX. I like the case because it is all aluminium, or to put it another way, I don't like newer cases that are all glass, plastic and steel. The trend now is also not to have 5 1/4" bays as...