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Sorry, I was dashing around getting ready to head to the airport :) That enclosure seems to me the solution for someone doing digital media production: RAID 0 for super fast, high capacity scratch drive, and then three individual drives for large stores of digital media assets or whatever is...

That’s not the raid enclosure I’d recommend for a media server.

For a media server, do RAID 1 with two disks. Or add a third drive and do RAID 4 or 5. The goal, IMO, is multi-drive storage pool with a reduced risk of catastrophic data loss from drive failure. (I have 3x5TB drives, using snapraid for two data and one parity. It’s not efficient on drive...

If you've spent the time and effort to extra 10+ TB of ripped (and possibly transcoded) media, I'd spend the money to add a third drive for single-drive parity, allowing for a single-drive failure in the RAID. If you use RAID 0, a single drive failure will lose *all* of your data. 20TB of data...

An 8 TB external drive is under $170, watching the sale prices. That’s 200 to 300 complete, full quality blu-Ray rips. Those blu-rays cost about $6000 to get in the first place. Storage is cheap. :)

It’s the QSV option for video settings. Here’s an older guide: https://www.mediadimo.com/handbrake-quick-sync.html I assume, but don’t know, it’s available on the Mac.

As a server, an i3 is fine. Many HTPC builds I've seen recommend going with a low power i3 for a silent server build. If you're doing a lot of transcoding, the i3 is not as a good as the i5 -- though if you can use the IGP with settings for Intel's integrated encoding, then the i3 will be much...