So I'm relatively new to homelab and below is my current setup.
Box 1 - TrueNAS, 4790k, 16gb, 256gb SSD, 4x2tb 5400 drvies (ZFS Pool), 3x12TB (ZFS Pool)
Box 2 - Proxmox, Intel N100, 16gb, 256gb ssd, 512 nvme
So I started with box 1 and it's currently running mostly media applications, plex, sab...