New Media Server

[LeoL]

I've been running Kodi for some years to play video which I record using NextPVR on my main PC. The video files are stored on a TrueNAS Core server running on an HP Microsever N54L.

This has worked well given that no transcoding takes place. But now I'm running out of disk space and want to build a new server.

I already have an ATX case that I like and it can take 9 hard drives which I already have.

My goal is to run Jellyfin and NextPVR on TrueNAS Scale.

My first question is whether this will work okay? In particular I'm thinking about the recording of TV using NextPVR from my PC satellite TV card under TrueNAS Scale?

My next question is which motherboard/CPU should I buy? It needs to support 9 sata drives and given that it will be on 24/7 I'm looking for something reasonably power efficient.

I'd also like a board with 2 nvme slots to use as boot drives (mirrored?).

I'm going round in circles looking at motherboards. Most don't support 9 sata drives so I've been looking at server motherboards. I'm quite happy with a server motherboard even if it costs more. But which one?

Any advice much appreciated as I'm completely new to Jellyfin.