Newbie - Lenovo PC Build

[1lolo94]

Hello everyone! Newbie here, so please be nice :)

I am about to convert my Lenovo K450 IdeaCentre and I have some questions.

Below are my current specs:

• Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4430 CPU @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz
• Installed RAM 8.00 GB
• Windows 10 64bit

First question is, will this PC handle the software, etc OK?

Second question is, I am wanting to add three - Western Digital 4TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive - 5400 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 64 MB Cache, 3.5. From what I have been reading, I can do a RAIDZ1 which can utilize all three drives and the space - is that correct?

The main goal is to turn this machine into a Plex server for local and external use.

Thanks and again, I am new to this and very very interested to get started.

 

[1lolo94]

anyone? :(

 

[Samuel Tai]

Should work, but more RAM would be better, especially if you intend to do a lot of transcoding.

 

[1lolo94]

Thanks for reply. The plan is setup two of the drives first then transfer the data from the external 4TB drive to the PC. Once that is done, i will add the external 4tb drive to the pc.

Any issues there - do you think?

 

[G8One2]

ECC ram is certainly recommended. Desktop hardware is not ideal, unless of course you dont care much about the data you're going to be putting on the system.