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It doesn't really matter as long as you're not storing the backups on the same system. You want to be able to restore if the system goes up in flames. Just consider how much storage you want to have, because you probably want more than one snapshot of each.
Speed isn't really a factor, as long as it completes in a reasonable timeframe. It runs in the background.
despite recommendations, I run PBS along side the standard server barebone. I don't store the backups on the same system they are stored to an external drive (which gets an offline copy every once and awhile) but I don't like the idea of having PBS in a virtual environment, it's just another layer that could go wrong in a restore process.
I run PBS as a virtual machine on Proxmox, with a dedicated physical harddrive passed through to PBS for the data.
While this protects from software failures of my VMs, it does not protect from catastrophic hardware failure. In theory I should be able to take the dedicated harddrive out and put it in any other system running a fresh PBS, but I have not tested this.
I tried running the same PBS with an external NFS share, but had speed and stability issue, mainly due to the hardware of the NFS host. And I wasn't aware of autofs at the time, so the NFS share stayed disconnected
I have it running as an LXC with a bindmount to my ZFS storage. I added backblaze b2 as an S3 endpoint and have a sync job to pull from my local storage.
I had the same conundrum, and for a time, I had a three-machine setup: Unriad, PVE, and PBS. But it did not make sense for me to keep a machine powered just for PBS, and I eventually discovered that I could run PBS as a docker in Unraid. So now I have Unraid/PBS (container) and a PVE host.