If there's no (usable) iptable option you can always just route the IPs/subets to a non existing gateway.
BOOZy1
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You might want to consider a typical desktop/tower with a consumer CPU. The noise and heat from a simple desktop PC, even of you have the case filled with 10 drives, is so much less than a server chassis.
I'd up the RAM to 64GB and run the extra stuff in Hyper-V that way it's easy to keep your gaming OS clean and prioritize services.
Taking out drives for testing is a no-no unless you're very careful.
If you hook up any drive to Windows it'll write on it and thus your drives aren't the same anymore. If you RAID controller (or software) doesn't catch this you now have an inconsistent RAID config.