welp this is my stop. in for 2

FWIW WD is having a “buy 2 18TB Red Pro drives for $549” sale right now

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd?sku=WD181KFGX

$25 extra for a Red Pro drive & not having shuck seems like a good value to me