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In use an i3 12100 with whatever cheep motherboard from a good brand and 16gb of ram (it would be fine with 8gb, but DDR4 ram is cheep so more the better) if you look at ZFS and a real raid, it gets expensive quick, I use Unraid which is ideal if you have SMR drives and/or different sized HDDs. You can get cheep LSI HBM cards off eBay in IT mode which is perfect to connect HDDs to (my mobo only has 4 sata ports)
That's how I run mine, though I think I may have a 10 or 11 series i3. It idles just under 30W, which isn't too bad, and - though I don't have lots of users - never breaks 40, even during 4k transcodes, thanks to quicksync.