It would be useful to know laptop spec. In general, do not bother power consumption should be lower enough as it is.

to stop guessing what HDD to replace when one failed. VM can't see actual HDDs as SMART is not getting forwarded.

I guess HE is still providing free IPv6 via IPv4 tunnels.

Biggest problem will be BW and latency to your lab from the Internet. I would use dedicated hardware and subnet for it. Security wise, if you can make your site 100% static it will help a lot with security. I'm personally set on AWS S3 + CloudFlare combo with static site generator running in my lab. Yes it is not really "self hosted" but worries free solution for me.

both works. Just do not forgot to assign fake serial numbers if you are passing disks. IMHO passing disk will be more performant, or may be just pass HBA controller if other disks are on different controller.

You need to be a root to exploit it, but if it get exploited any way to get rid of it is to throw MB to trash.

Why create yourself a headache and still get substandard and no-warranty drive. If you want cheaper drives go for reconditioned/refurbished/used drives. Same risks, better product. Old enterprise SAS drives are cheap and many still have plenty of heath in them.

Usually just plug/unplug couple of times is enough. No fancy chemicals.

But it usably getting dry over time and you can't remove it cleanly.

Such an abomination :-)

Heh, Jellyfin is above Plex. Nice. And it would be interesting to know how that survey conducted. Too many countries missing.

Plus seed some torrents to cover network requirements.