Home Server Noob looking for advice

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Budget i'd like to keep as small as possible but 250 (cost of the N300) is about my limit. If you mean physically building a system, I have done many. Main reason to move to a mini pc is power efficiency otherwise I could reuse the case, psu and drives, it would really be the cpu, mobo, ram.

N300 > N100 (8 E-cores vs 4 E-cores)

Given that this is just a N100 with more cpu, would I be handicapped by the 8Gb ram?

Saw my post got flagged, didn't know some softwares could not be mentioned sorry.