If you keep an eye out you can sometimes find 4tb nvme drives for ~$200, so you could build an eye watering 24tb raid0 array in one of those that would saturate a 25gb nic for less than $1,500.

Or make it a 5x1 parity for a smidge of redundancy.

These machines sadly dont have a 25gb nic though!

Well, yeah, but they would if they had one, which would be pretty neat, lol.

Installing 6 m2 drives.

Or three or four for now, and expanding to more later :)