If you don't have any technical experience I imagine building your own even with used parts would be a bit daunting. However If you are willing to learn and do the work I'd recommend getting one of these: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hp/t620/
You can pair that with a basic 1TB m.2 SATA SSD (check prices here: https://diskprices.com)
Then install start9, umbrel, etc should be pretty easy.
You can also run testnet, or just a pruned mainnet node if you don't want to jump right into a 1TB drive.
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