It sounds like you have the right idea. You should be able to easily fit all second hand parts within your budget. Happy computing
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Object storage, POSIX, and various flavors of RAID. I also dabble in RubberMaid bins from time to time as well. Don’t get me started on Docker containers either.
This is really tempting actually. Do you by chance need someone with skills in various storage technologies?
I found this to be more or less impossible on my AM4 platform. The AMD RAID kernel module didn’t work under any distro. Fire up an Ubuntu live environment and see if you can detect and read the contents of your Windows environment. That should give you a good sense for what is possible. Otherwise I recommend installing to a separate NVME as I have.
I was able to read without subscription or paywall. This is about AMD writing software that is open source and competes directly with Nvidia’s CUDA software framework.