I'm looking for a perfect LE-based solution to replace my current Amlogic S922X system in the long term. I'm using pretty much most of the ELEC system features including media player (4K HDR), NAS (shared USB external drive) and retro console emulation. With the new ultra efficient x86 CPUs and the performance demand of the hopefully soon coming emulation features (like 3D emulators and shaders) I'm thinking about switching to x86 platform.
I was looking at Ryzen based systems like Beelink SER6 with Ryzen 6800H (6800U would be even better) as it should be very powerful yet very low power when idle and also it has hardware AV1 decoder. But I would like to extend the current solution by adding an optical drive (could be slim) and by adding the second disk in a RAID 1 array (to back up the NAS data). Also, I would like to have all-in-one system which means to switch from 1 external disk to 2 internal disks.
So the questions are:
1. What is the current state of support for Ryzen 6xxx APUs?
2. Is there either a mini PC with 2 HDD slots (either 2.5" or 3.5") and an optical drive slot (either slim or full)?
3. Or is there a mini ITX board with the mobile Ryzen 6xxx APU?
EDIT: I'm aware of the missing RAID support in LE, but it can be added in custom build.
EDIT2: Or is it better to stick with Intel?