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[TheDreadPirate]

If you have HDR content and your users don't have HDR compatibles devices, you will need tone mapping. To be clear, having tone mapping enabled does not affect plain transcodes. Tone mapping is the process of converting HDR to SDR. If the content someone is watching is SDR, tone mapping is not happening. There is no performance penalty for simply having it enabled. The 6-8 user number only applies to how many tone mapped streams you can handle simultaneously, worst case scenario.

I like Fractal Design cases. A couple of their models have a lot of drive sleds. They're a bit pricey, but they are well built and have a lot of quality-of-life features that makes building in them great.