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My budget is ~500 Euro.

I haven't built a PC in 10 years, I gave no idea where to start.

It will mostly be used to run Nextcloud, Minecraft Server and some future homelab projects.

I'm thinking of using this for the case https://www.the-diy-life.com/introducing-lab-rax-a-3d-printable-modular-10-rack-system

Where do I start? What CPU or motherboard would you recommend? I want it to be somewhat future proof and also act as a NAS

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RAID is production ready on btrfs, the only issue is the write hole on RAID 5/6. If you don't need RAID 5/6, you're fine. I use RAID 1, which is 100% production ready.

multi-device support

Ah, I've never considered that use case. My HDD RAID 1 array is plenty fast for what I need.

But isn't that basically what a cache drive does? It mostly caches reads, but I think it can cache writes too.

Good to know if that's your use case, but it sounds pretty niche to me.