You know, i think that ARM is really good for personal computing! However, right now i'm planning on adding more HDDs to my current homelab, which is made of l

You know, i think that ARM is really good for personal computing! However, right now i'm planning on adding more HDDs to my current homelab, which is made of low power last gen x86 hardware, but even so just 2 boxes with 200 GEs inside currently pull around 100W in total from the wall (PSUs are probably not awfully efficient either, to be honest). That said, having PCI lanes does keep me hopeful - while i have 4 SATA ports on the mobo, expansion cards could bring that number up pretty nicely. I reckon that i could have about 8 HDDs in each box on consumer hardware with few to no issues, while also using them as servers with ~32 GB of RAM for my container clusters. If i had to start over, would i go for a Raspberry Pi or an equivalent cluster, or maybe a dedicated NAS? Maybe, as long as ARM software isn't too hard to come across, and the limited RAM or other expandability doesn't become too much of a problem.