Samba prefers clock speeds over more threads.

Emby will do more with a cheap nvidia card with Nvenc than even a high power CPU.

HA isn’t going to need anything.

So I say get whatever has highest clocks of the options.

This chart mirrors what I have felt, that HDD size increase has slowed way down.

We had a 500 mbyte in our win 3.11 box in 94. 2004 I think I had an 80gb

ZFS scrub.

If you have lots of small files, yes this is bad.

For videos the space lost will just be a rounding loss.

Would be interesting to test for music. A 100k 20mbyte files. You could lose a lot of space if using 1 mbyte+ stripes that have been recommended for a while now.

Draid mitigates a lot of the problems of very wide raidz

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic Concepts/dRAID Howto.html

They never did make SSDs.

“Most of its SSDs use WD branding rather than SanDisk branding, but it’s still SanDisk at its core. As part of this move, SanDisk will effectively revert to its pre-acquisition state, which means that WD’s current lineup of SSDs should still exist with SanDisk branding, while WD will continue selling spinning hard drives only.”