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>>158 (OP) 
It looks alright to me. I'm not a NAS expert but if you just want to host music then it should be fine. As for the GPU, you should look into a beefier card. It'd be able to stream 1080p fine, probably. What matters more is the file format (mkv, mp4, etc) and the size of the file in my experience. If your device can't play MKV, the GPU/CPU has to transcode MKV to a compatible format and thus puts more strain on the server. Music, however, should be fine no matter what, even if your wife wants to play flac files. 

You can also check out the current /hsg/ thread on 4trans, which might give you helpful info https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104025835

>>159
Fuck yeah, thank you

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You can get a NIC that has a 10G-BaseT port or two off eBay for cheap. Looks like regular ethernet but can do 10-gigabit.
Get three disks, attach them with USB 3.0, and do a ZFS mirror across the three disks. ECC memory is recommended in general but is not absolutely necessary. Look into how ZFS does end-to-end checksumming of data blocks. ZFS thrives with cheap disks.
You could get four 2.5" SATA HDDs or SSDs off of eBay and then attach them with USB 3.0 to SATA adapters. 3.5" SATA HDDs will require DC adapters for more power than a USB port can provide.
With ZFS you can start with smaller disks and gracefully rotate out disks with larger disks one by one. You can expand the disk pool and available capacity without stopping applications.

If your NAS is in a living room or common area you do want to spend more money on the power supply, a large heat sink, and something that can house a large heat sink. If you think you want to save money instead, the women in your life will end up telling you one way or another later.
You want something that is so quiet no one can tell if it is even turned on. Or, keep the NAS in the other room (garage or whatever) and have the media machine talk to the NAS using NFS over the 10-gigabit ethernet. CAT6A and CAT8 cables can do 10-gigabit no problem. Also set up MACsec just because.

Attached is a Fractal Define 7 XL which is what I use for quiet NAS.

>>163
How to setup MACSec cheap? Got a guide?

>>169
A web search should turn up what is needed to do MACsec between two devices.
I can write a guide and share some scripts that can make setting up MACsec super easy. I'll have some time some time between now and the 7th.

>>181
Please write a guide. We can probably put it on the ERICA wiki. Do you also have any ideas for Layer 1 OOB encryption with hardware offloading? I think MACsec is L2. Maybe two pis? Would be great to get 10gb site to site though.

>>158 (OP) 
If it's just for music, at that budget you'd be fine taking an old pc from a dumpster behind an office building and spending all your money on a new hdd. There aren't any graphics cards worth getting near $100 that would be useful for 4K transcoding or streaming.

>>163
fractal cases I recommend, one of few companies that had good customer service as of 2 years ago 2 emails and got a free part that I broke even telling them it was my fault and I was willing to buy just wanted a replace.