I have been busy searching for hardware for our new server. Its very hard to find cheap hardware here.
We want two ProArt B650-CREATOR but its not where in stock in India. I think will have to settle for ASRock X670E PG Lightning.
Both have decent amount of pcie lans and verified ECC support. ProArt also has support for EPYC which is a better choice.
For CPU we are thinking Ryzen 9 7900X.
We are making two servers, both will be at different location and will work as high availability with auto failover.
Our primary use is to store videos, backup, media etc. and host applications like password manager and media server like Jellyfin.