I have Seagate Barracuda drives in my NAS because I didn’t know about CMR vs SMR before I bought them.

2 of them are backups, the other spins all the time. The bulk of my storage is video files with infrequent adding of new stuff. The active drive has qBittorrent seeding from it 24/7 so it can be a bit noisy.

Other than that, you’ll see lower transfer speeds from SMR drives but nothing to worry about if it’s small writes or infrequent copying of large video files. It also takes an age to run a long SMART self test - 18hrs on an 8TB HDD that is 75% full (this’ll get worse as it gets closer to full).

So SMR drives aren’t ideal but they’ll do the job for a “write once, read many times” style of storage. I wouldn’t buy them at all for a RAID setup. If you can, you’d be better buying refurbished enterprise drives but I have no idea what availability there’ll be where you are.

50w… holy shit!

My server with 1 SSD, 3 HDDs running multiple docker containers doesn’t usually pull more than 35-40w.

My router tops out at 8w and my wireless access point at 5w IIRC.

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Oh I do, he’s a legend in his own mind.

Theft is the reason for wealth inequality.

This article is unbelievably stupid and completely divorced from reality.