Maybe... When I was younger, I used to buy and sell computer stuff. Didn't have much money, so it kinda made sense. But it required me to keep up to date with prices, specs, figure what's the best value, follow markets and jump on an occasion, etc. It got old after a while. There's also value in getting something that just works for you, if it's not absurdly expensive, and forget about it. Do something else with my time.

I still love to tinker and set up a homelab and whatnot, but I don't care that much about hardware anymore. For my needs, if it's at least a 6th gen Intel and I can't hear it in my living room, it's good enough. The NAS lives in my parents' basement, so it can be somewhat louder (with 4 drives instead of two).

For this particular setup, my initial usage was above 4 TB, so I should have went with 2x6, which was /maybe/ cheaper (don't remember), but then it would have required me to deal with selling used gear and go through the motions of upgrading again. Doing this every 4-5 years? Sure. Every year? Hell no.