$500 gives you about 6 RPi 5 8GB or 4 16GB, excluding accessories or other necessary equipment to get this working.

You'll be much better off spending that money on something else more useful.

> $500

Yeah, like a Mac Mini or something with better bandwidth.

Raspberry Pis going up in price make them very unattractive since there is a wealth of cheap second used better hardware out there such as NUCs with Celerons