Comment by randusername

I'm doing it anyway and I've found some secondhand deals. Maybe COVID homelabbers are offloading gear?

I built a 24 TB HDD NAS in a 36 bay chassis for around $1000 all-in: mb, ram, rails, chassis, rack, disks, hba, nic

Awful Watts/TB but the plan is to run it and the GPU rig on solar.