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A lot of people say go modern because of power consumption. I would say get as much storage as you can. Biggest thing is to just start because you will improve it over time.
You can buy a used prebuilt server on eBay or get one without drives and get the drives. For $500 you can get like a g9 hp g8 dell both will be fine
He’s trying to do it for free. That’s only in the paid.