Depends a lot on budget, space, and electricity costs. Going to ‘overkill’ level once can save a lot of these issues down the line.
Mine started similarly, some small box with a couple drives that got up sized and then moved to another to add more…
Eventually I bought a used 2U box with 14 bays and set it up with a ZFS pool all made up of mirrored disk pairs and auto snapshots so it can have a drive fail without issue and go back 2 weeks if something gets oops deleted.
Downside, now the whole lab uses about 700 watts continually so the power bill is kinda nuts.



Between the election losses, his tariffs in seeming jeopardy, and now the sandwich hero rulling, you can bet Donnie’s gonna have an extra special meltdown over the weekend.