Hey guys so sorry for lack of replies, super slammed in life ATM. I have not had a chance to hook up drives and run reports, but just to set expectations correctly the drives were all pulled out of 24/7 servers or nas arrays so the have a ton of usage and power on hours.
What about just a HDMI 2.1 slim cable then you can twist it the way you need it? Just thinking you could get a tighter radius than something like an adapter maybe?
You could load up on 20tb refurb drives from server parts for $180 each, but as above states you need to define requirements for build, like throughput or transcoding for plex maybe?
I think you are going to have a tough time to get something as small as an xbox and as powerful in the same price range.... it is effectivly an 8 core zen 2 AMD and a rx 6800 class hardware, your best bet is probably a gaming laptop or something like this...