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I don't run the 'arr stack, but for comparison, one of my servers is a Optiplex 7020 SFF / i7-4790 / 32GB RAM. It's running around 45 containers now with ease from automatons with n8n to streaming audio with Navidrome. In fact, it spends most of it's life in an idle state with load averages looking like .20/.27/.32. I don't do any transcoding tho, so I can't speak to that as far as resources. I see others have made suggestions in that dept. As far as the 4 bay USB HDD, you're going to need some storage space at some point or another so it's not like it would be wasted effort.