Yup. Lots of thunderbolt to fast nic for macs (especially since the new mac pro is kinda a joke), but they're weird on most OSes.
I've tried - and USB just doesn't cut it for large scale things. Tbolt is better, but... still buggy for some...
60T? Uh... yeah, I'm thinking a different scale. My current archive build will have 10 of those 20T drives (starting with 10 8T, will swap them out over time). :D I do weird shit.
So you'd need 4 of them, and we know that's an issue on DDR5...
I'm running an average of 75% used on 128G right now. :p VMs burn through it FAST if you're doing enterprise ones.
The servers have 2T or 3T depending on the box. I aim for half of maximum on any workstation or consumer system.
The TB4 to QSFP adapters were not popular, buggy as shit, and best handled with an external PCIE enclosure with an actual ~card~ in it. They also get hot as shit (like hot enough to melt things), which meant that "external" device either weighed...