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When you say storage you mean the storage for the os right? Can't this be "part of the" data of the NAS?

Could I have an SSD for cache?

I leaning toward a desktop like to tell the truth. The 8-16 gb of ram instead of something like 4 is for the VM's?

I am thinking of diy syste with the lowest budget possible. The main concern is tb/euro so I was thinking of raid 5 and maybe raid 6 in the future. That's why I was thinking of buying hardware capable for both. VM's is not really critical point, it would just be a nice feature if the price for it was really really low. I don't really care about power usage (ofcourse to be normal enough for my bill )

8-12tb of storage (4tb disks probably) and I was talking about software raid, I just thought that even software raid to be raid 6 needed a raid controller (no?). For VM probably a typical linux machine for python coding or some other staff like that, not something very demanding.

But do you have raid? My only concern comes down to raid and especially raid 5 (after writing this post I read that mobos don't support raid 6 without a raid controler). So, for a raid 5 would 2 cores and 4 gb ram for example be enough? Should the ram be ecc? What if I want it to be able to support some VM's? And, let's say I want to access it outside my home, does the requirements get higher or is it the same?

So, it is time to built a NAS for my house and I am trying to understand what requirements will the system have!! So, considering the options of raid 5, raid 6, raid 10 and no raid at all, what do you think would be the requirements of a system in memory and cpu in each case??