My NAS setup currently.
8 8TB drives (the NAS is like 6 years old) in RaidZ2.
Edit: The scribbled spot is a SSD that had the barcodes visible. The SSD is a 1TB drive for VM installs and other stuff that isn’t deep storage.
Edit2: The SSD isn’t anchored because it has no moving parts and it was placed like that for testing… 4 months ago… It’s just temporary I swear!
Edit3: For those curious the case is a Darkrock Classic Storage Master
Mine didn’t start like this, mine initially had only 3 drives and was run in RAIDZ1.
It was a couple years before I got to 8.
NGL though I kinda wish I lived with 3 for longer and went with bigger drives when I upgraded, but I’m happy with my ~42TB of space and 2 redundant disks.