Let's say that you don't want a home lab or anything associated with it - you just want to have a large amount of storage for Linux Distros - 240TB (raw) or more. If you had up to $5k to spend on your solution, what would you go with? NOTE: You can get something for under $5k if you use refurbished drives - 20TB drives can be gotten for ~$210 or so via GoHardDrive or ServerPartDeals when they are on sale (or for less) - so you can get it at that price point.
Out of the box Synology, QNAP, or build your own? If you build it on your own, what OS would you use for it? You CAN build something using a Jonsbro N5 case (12 drives) and then have a LSI 16i while using a 8087 to 8088 adapter so you can add a JBOD enclosure later.
Anyhow, tell me what you think you would do if you needed that type of storage space. I am genuinely curious as to what people would come up with. NAS, Windows Server, Linux server, or whatever.