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It’s offensive to people who have actually experienced genocide to use that word.
I’m happy you have no experience with war but if you ever do you will understand don’t stay in a war zone. Also if your government starts a war they better win it or you will have a bad time. There are multiple conflicts around the world right now but the one with a certain group people have a history of hating now is the focus of this hyperbolic language.
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