There wouldn't be any vegans.

Essentially it turns a pcie X4 slot into 4 sata ports, 4 NVMe slots, and 4 usb ports.

Nah, I'm good. I still have 100TB free on the NAS and no more than 30% storage used on any client device.

Little weird that you chose a picture of an anti-establishment welshman for the first picture.

Everything on the NAS.

Then network shares are the answer.