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> a modest 80tb one for my home lab

I laughed.

It's wild but 80TB actually is modest compared to some of the enthusiasts on /r/homelab and /r/datahoarders that are running 300TB NAS servers at home. 80TB can still maybe fit in a single box. (8x10TB)

Synology systems will take 24TB drives (let’s not dive into which drives they’ll take). However there is a volume limit depending on processor.

https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/Why_does_my_Synol...

Yeah, I'd certainly take it over this:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1618911-REG/synology_...

I paid ~$4900 in October 2021 for a TrueNAS MiniXL+ with 8x14TB, 2x480G SSD (L2ARC/ZIL) and 64GB RAM, 2x10Gbps, with 3 year support direct from IxSystems. The CPU is an 8 core Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3758 @ 2.20GHzStill going strong. I had drive failure and they replaced it. I had a fan failure and they replaced the fans. The price of the UI kit in 2026 seems to be reasonable.