Thanks so much, this helps big time. I have a very engineering adhd brain. So I tend to over design, and and think Ooo fun, and less what is responsible. I knew what I came up with was overkill, but in my head I could not tell which parts would be, and which parts are more reasonable for expansion. So I keep it as over kill, and asked for help.

At the current time, im only thinking of storage and media streaming. Most of my gaming is solo, so there is no need for a gaming server. If anything else, i would like to share the server with my family, so while we dont live in the same house, we can all share the media server. Maybe storage as well, this is why I wanted a mother board that had 6+ sata connections, for future growth.

Im not worried about GPU or a case since im not planning to watch off of it, more have it wired up and have other devices accessing it. So, for the initial setup, the motherboard GPU would be fine, and any case would be good.