Wow, thanks for the amazing reply!

and wow! I did not expect to have to shell out 400-500 before disks. So I think I’ll go along with your suggestion. I’m located in the nordics, so stuff is more expensive, and things are not as available. In the 200-300 range, I mostly find 6th gen intel gaming rigs. I did find a ryzen 3900x rig for 400, that comes with a gpu and 6 sata slots. So I think that would be better value than an external 5 bay enclosure.

I just thought I could drop 100-200usd and have a nice setup, but I guess I didn’t know the cost of stuff. Thanks for steering me in the right direction!