I went this route with TrueNAS running in a Proxmox VM and the HBA card with the entire array of spinning disks passed thru to TrueNAS. I chose Intel because of its video transcoding capabilities (media server is one of my use cases). 70 different Docker containers running including my LN node and Nostr relays. I also roll without ECC RAM because I’m a fucking maniac. But the system is rock solid and was super rewarding to cobble together.