A small addition to the above post. I did not mention storinat | Spark in me

A small addition to the above post. I did not mention storinators (which are just configurable servers in a custom case ofc).

The cheapest storinator with 16 drive bays and 10 gig ethernet goes for US$3.5k+ wo drives.

So DIY with 10+ drives is 5x cheaper even with 10 gig network / ECC RAM.

If you need 60 drives then there are no options though.