So its Sunday afternoon and am happily sitting here speculating on a PC build I'm unlikely to ever have the money for (unless I accidentally drop the existing PC out the window anyway).

So any thoughts anyone...

Mostly its for ripping / handbraking media and sending it round the house, so some reasonable performance and lots of storage. General home/browsing/light (MS) office use. Not interested in gaming.

Thinking of -

Fractal Design R5 cos its nice and has 2 5.25 bays for BR drives, 8 3.5 drives (have 7 drives at the moment) and 2 ssd spaces - https://www.playtech.co.nz/fractal-design-define-r5-usb3-0-mid-tower-case-black.html?fee=24&fep=12460&utm_source=PriceSpy&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=PriceSpy

Asrock x570 Steel Legend cos its got 8 SATAs and apparenently 10 USBs of various descriptions (have got lots of external HDDs as well - https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/MBDASR15712/ASRock-X570-Steel-Legend-ATX-Form-Factor-For-AMD-R?qr=pspy&ref=pricespy

Ryzen 3700X for the above board.

Some kind of PCI4 m.2 storage thingy - https://classic.pricespy.co.nz/category.php?k=v2289&o=produkt_pris_inkmoms#rparams=m=s330915491

32GB memory - https://classic.pricespy.co.nz/category.php?m=s330915472&o=produkt_pris_inkmoms#rparams=m=s330915478

Graphics card - no idea, not that important to me, something from here - https://classic.pricespy.co.nz/category.php?k=350&o=produkt_pris_inkmoms#rparams=m=s330915599

PSU - no idea 750W plus ? - https://classic.pricespy.co.nz/category.php?m=s330915503&o=produkt_pris_inkmoms#rparams=m=s330915529

Have lots of HDDs, a Samsumg SSD, Monitor, keyboard.

Adds up to maybe $1800 if I haven't forgotten anything. Maybe $2000 including Windows