This is not a homelab replacement part. It’s enterprise with all the positive and negatives that come with that phrase. The second you start talking about old X hardware, it’s a different product class.

For that use case I recommend UNas from ugreen or the minis forum ryzen Ai stuff.

Think about the competitors - they're aiming at the Synology RackStations and similar, which are $3-5k without drives.

The segment UI and Synology are in are 10x more than the minisforum, beelink, qnap, cwwk type devices, but still 1/10 of the price of getting started in enterprise gear from HPe, Dell, Pure, etc.

I recently bought a used Dell R240 and 4x 20TB for less than this. From TechmikeNY if anyone's interested.