I am somewhat limited in cost. Want to build a music server and need to connect it to my Macs. I have four 3.5" drives by Seagate and WD, all 20Tb each. If I need 2.5" drives I can buy smaller ones. Needing some models reccomended that either have Thunderbolt ports or that I can them to.
Is it about speed? (then the budget is prohibitive) or just connection (then just get TB to 1-10GbE adapters for the computers)
Not certain what’s the music server you mean here.
It will be performance overkill if the purpose is simply put all your music into this NAS, and playback them from your Macs. Using a normal Ethernet connection or Wi-Fi should be sufficient.
However if they purpose is to edit/make music from materials, the model ends with T are all providing Thunderbolt ports. Like TVS-h674T.
Still depend on the scenario.