I am so tired of those click bait articles. Can’t they stop writing sensational titles like this and simply state the name of the game?

No, by CPU is an odd choice, I meant for the i7-6700K. The Ryzen CPU is quite recent and very powerful, and energy efficient. Again, for a multimedia system you need a big case like the Define one and lots of SATA ports and bays. The Intel one checks the boxes, but you need a better processor or alternatively an external GPU, like the Intel Battlemage to have hardware encoding acceleration.

The mini PC is nice but not suitable for multimedia machine, as it lacks the SATA ports and bays. You can use it as a router, like OPNSense.

Why are you buying a rack when neither of your machines are rack mountable?

What is your use case, what are you using the big PC and the small one? Why Unraid and not TrueNAS Scale for example.

If you are planning on using the big machine for multimedia, be aware that the i7-6700K doesn’t support hardware encoding/decoding of HEVC and the CPU is not powerful enough for live 4K software transcoding.

This CPU is quite an odd choice though, it is 10 years old and in my opinion extremely outdated. Get at least 8-9 gen, that at least have this running.

Let the witch hunt begin.

https://openvpn.net/connect-docs/how-to-use-tasker.html maybe something similar can work for your use case

Maybe if Reddit isn’t saving the IP addresses of their users, film companies wouldn’t be able even if they want to retrieve that information.