Been running one from Radxa for a while. Just make sure to check the power requirements of your drives.

The HAT-ability of RPi makes them enough for me. You can add sata ports, PCIe, and more with a simple HAT.

I’ve been in the same boat, and ended up installing a lot of utils just to keep my sanity. I used this guy as a primary resource: https://youtu.be/cfsNO14hikA

Reddit def won, but I have no idea why people still continue to moderate it for free. It’s crystal clear that the do not care about their mods, and for all intends and purposes treat them as peasants.