The hackaday feed is pretty interesting if you’re into that space

That should work for media files at least, but I believe they’ll also need Plex pass to be able to download anything.

Absolutely, that is definitely preferred when possible!

Same, we’re ones of dozens I’m sure but I’ve been running a mix of WD greens and Seagate barracudas in a hardware RAID5 array for over a decade. Only had 2 drive failures over the entire time with no data loss. But yeah… would advise against that if possible

It’s weird, a little quirky, and can be a unpredictable at times. It all adds to charm though and I love it.