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If you really MUST use the 8300H, here is a thought:
The 8300H is 4c/8t. Not too bad.
Would I do this? Well you're spending $400USD to $500USD if you don't have parts. You're buying HDD if you don't have them.
You could Craig's List or Facebook MP or even eBay and find a better, more powerful, but still power friendly system with space inside for those drives. I see things for $150 on there with SSDs and often NVMe and space inside for HDD. I mean five SATA motherboard ports is all you need for drives (RAID5 using ZFS).
I would likely go that route vs. making an old, out-of-date laptop (I have 17 of them, I know out-of-date LOL and I love my "kids.") work. If you want to build a Frankenstein, I'm here for it. If you want a working server you'll have (almost?) zero issues with, shop around a little and save money. And headache. (Will the laptop even boot to BIOS screen on external LCD with the main broke?) AND a desktop can easily give you multiple 1Gbps or 10Gbps connections for future use, cheap.
Cheers!
Great info!