Maybe Canada will get all the affordable cars that the US misses out on. In Australia, there’s some good Chinese EVs from MG and BYD that are around the equivalent of US$20k including taxes.

Samba is good too, but needs some config tweaking to hit top speeds on faster networks (5Gbps, 10Gbps or more). Probably not relevant here since the Pi only has a gigabit Ethernet port.

Get rid of the SD card and only use the SSDs. It’s a common point of failure with Pis - SD cards aren’t designed for frequent writes.

Consider using NFS instead of sshfs for more reliability.