Checking out Logseq now. I switched to Obsidian a few months ago and have been really liking it. Was time to switch it up from org-mode after YEARS of using it

Way over your budget but if you can swing it the UniFi Dreammachine is amazing. I can’t recommend it enough and was super easy to configure for my fiber internet at the house

Method I use is a RAID 5 replace all my disks with larger ones. Grow RAID, LVM and then XFS. Went from 4TB drives to 8TB, and now 24TB drives using this method for the past about decade now