I don’t know what to say other than I’ve tried it and it doesn’t work. I thought it would but it doesn’t.

Not in my experience over the last couple of winters. The office just stays at 80F or more while the rest of the basement is 70F even with a fan blowing from the office out into the main room in the basement.

Some of it would leave, however, most of it stayed in the office which it’s why it was 80F+ in there.

I have a constant 1000W load which is ~3400 BTU.

Sellers can send offers to potential buyers. It happens to me all of the time.

No concerns here.

I buy used server chassis and power supplies for my NASes.

The only new items in my primary, backup, and offsite NASes are the 500TB of HDD’s and a couple of fan splitters.

The only new items in my 3 Proxmox nodes are…nothing actually. All SSD’s, HDD’s and everything else is used enterprise hardware.

The only thing I buy new are the HDD’s for the bulk storage.

I’ll buy used enterprise SSD’s for flash storage.

Not necessarily. I’ve had enterprise SSD’s die that were under 1yr old with less than 100TB written.

I also have HDD’s used in my surveillance system that have several petabytes written to them over the last 6yrs still going strong.

I just moved the HDD I got in my first NAS (8TB WD Red) to its 4th home and it just turned 7 y/o.

All drives die eventually whether they are HDD’s or SSD’s.

8 years is a good run for any type of drive.

Backups are key for keeping your data safe over the decades.

I don’t care what others do, however, I just have no interest storing documents with my SSN on their software.

Could I go through the 50K+ lines of code (even though I’m not proficient with Go) looking for something nefarious…sure. Will I given that trusted software such as Nextcloud exists and is also free…nope.