Okay guys, back after a short break. Here's where I'm at:
Got a budget of around £200 to get me started.
Currently have around 12tb of storage spread over 7 desktop HDDs, and 1 internal HDD. Which I would like to migrate to my new server over time.
Want to use unRAID for my server. On my server I'd like to run sickbeard, sabnzbd, couchpotato, headphones, subsonic and maybe airvideo.
I've already had some great advice here which im grateful for, but I'm finding myself a little overwhelmed. Need a bit of hand-holding to get me on the right track. I don't have any pc or server building knowledge, but I do know where I'd like to end up. Would ideally like to use the desktop HDDs I have in some capacity, can they be taken out of their case and stored any other way? Also know that I eat up storage quickly so would need a server that could keep expanding, but I'm so over desktop HDDs now, they don't seem to be the way forward for me. I'm down to my last 40gig, but there is a summer break now for tv shows which seems like a good time to change.
I'm learning all the time, but don't want my inexperience to backfire here. I'm not from an I.T. background so I'm learning as I go. Was going to build a server by repurposing an old tower pc. Been looking on eBay for an old one to start me off but don't want to get one that isn't fit for purpose.
In my situation what would you guys opt for? Am I going about this the right way? Maybe I'm over complicating things
I'm based in the uk so please bear that in mind when providing any places to source hardware.