When they are in stock, they are selling at normal retail prices again. The stock is still only lasting for hours to days unfortunately.

You have been duly ignored.

They are. Follow the backblaze drive failure reports for quality checks.

Also trying calling them, if you give them your mac they can put it in the system, and then it will work. Time Warner used to be big on mac filtering.

I still only use the free version of plex. I don’t stream to other people but I am pretty sure the option to share my library is still there. I do stream from two other libraries on occasion.

Look at minisforum and beelink.

I bought a synology for this. I still need to add a backup plan to it though.