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If you don't want to be replacing sdcards every two weeks, you'll need to add a hard drive with an enclosure which will also need power. You'll also need an upgraded power supply for the pi. To deal with any sort of scale, you'll need more than one in a swarm. If you don't want them just out in the open air, you'll either need to coat them or put them in cases. It just all adds up to way more than a $5 ebay laptop with a broken screen that has 20x the performance.
Don't buy garage SD cards. I have cards that have been in use for years.
Dang I gotta stop getting my cards from garages?
I have an SSD connected to mine which doesn't need external power and runs fine off the "official" power adapter. The case I have isn't the greatest (two pieces of acrylic and some stand-offs lol), but it costed 50p and gets the job done.
As for scale, you're beyond a Pi at that point.
I had the same, but it got corrupted eventually. It seemed it was working fine, but it was impossible to complete smartctl test. I believe that rpi cant handle peak power draw every SSD. That SSD was running fine for 3-4 months and before that I had one running for 2-3 years. I feel like its kinda random and depends on your luck