That's a fantastic rundown - thank you so much for taking the time to write such a comprehensible explanation! I live in a rather small apartment (56 square me

That's a fantastic rundown - thank you so much for taking the time to write such a comprehensible explanation! I live in a rather small apartment (56 square metres), so I'm trying to find an acceptable trade-off between noise and space. I'm in Europe, so sourcing parts can unfortunately be a bit of a challenge, so I'll probably have to be creative to solve some issues (which honestly is also fun) I had found a couple of 2U racks that could hold 2 mITX boards, but the lack of cooling options made me nervous whether it would get too hot With you now writing that you would have gone with the mATX board if you were making the build today, I think I'll probably go with that instead - especially since I'd like to use ECC ram, and you mention that ECC SODIMMs are expensive and difficult to find I've been reading a lot of reviews on servethehome, but haven't gone through their forums yet. I'll make sure to check it out - thanks for the tip! I haven't yet decided whether I'll go with ceph, gluster, or something else entirely. I'm leaning towards ceph, but I've read several warnings about running only 3 nodes in a ceph cluster, so it's (once again) a matter of figuring out a good trade-off In any case - you've definitely helped me out here and I really appreciate that you took the time to write such a comprehensive explanation