MangoPenguin

I do local backups to another drive, and online encrypted backups to cloud storage (I use backblaze B2)

Yeah gotta make sure you never use the same password in multiple places, use a password manager.

The cheapest way I can think of is a used PCIe HBA card and some SATA power extension cables. Probably $50 or so to connect 8 drives this way.

If you're set on USB you can often get 4 bay enclosures for around $100 or so, that would the way I'd do it. The downside of single USB adapters is the sheer amount of wires and power supplies you'll have.

It is still keeping the battery warmer which degrades it faster regardless if its being charged or not.

I set up Plex/Jellyfin specifically to get away from having to manage media manually, it tracks watch states, gets subtitles, transcodes for me when I'm traveling, and does all of that for family too.

MPV is neat but its just a standard media player app like VLC, not really anywhere near the same concept as Jellyfin.

Seeding works fine without port forwarding. Just won't be connecting to as many peers.

Right? A burrito is $10+ and they wonder why people don't go there as often.

For normal use like that 16GB is generally just fine. Some games can use enough that you'll need to close Firefox and other RAM hungry programs though.

As far as needing more than that, people who do heavy design work or edit videos and that kind of thing generally do. For example 32GB running Fusion in Davinci Resolve can be a bit limiting sometimes with higher resolution or 10 bit footage.

That ones actually fine IMO because they advertise Mbps which is fairly clearly different from MBps (b vs B, bit vs byte), and very easy to convert between.

Another day, another unreal engine game with massive performance issues.