Well, there was more driver fiddling, and I ended up on Fedora 38.
This is a reminder, your homelab is a good place for "e-waste." This machine is lightning, and runs like 🔥 now.
My new Nostr development machine cost me ~$80.
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You could utilize that one empty cd with something like this 
That looks absolutely sick. You totally just spent my money on payday.
Was checkng this on German Amazon -33 euros, but maybe there are some other better brands, I havent got gadget. I still have old style pc case, what I wantted to build into server type pc. Thats why I had this in mind 
Certainly has enough 5 1/2” bays. You could fill that with a lot of SSD drawers. 😂
I say go for it. See if you can get a Xeon from a few years ago. I really want an arm board for my server, but the good ones are still too expensive. Jeff Geerling recently showcased an Ampere in a desktop that made me 🤤
I haven't given up hope to build a home storage server with this case someday. There are also few other variotations to look up for the storage bays 
Jeff has an awesome YT channel.
I had Supermicro X11SPL-F fitted in my case, but did not finnish my build, because I did not have graphics card for this build, and that was in time when the graphics cards was stupidly expensive (during the covid lockdown.), decided to sold the motherboard and cpu. 
Also these may be worth to consider to check , if you want to add extra drives and if the space is limited in the case. 
