LeTak

Good point. I looked mostly at the spec sheet from the manufacturer and for example the Samsung 870 Evo vs Seagate IronWolf NAS Drive. Side note, AFAIK NVME drives have a higher power consumption. Especially PCIe 5.0.

My NAS with 2 HDDs from Seagate has a total powerdraw of around 30-40w. And I don’t spin the drives down.

1. Latency of accessing files/loading times
2. Lifespan reduction because of spin up / spin down Head moves (the most common for head crash, as I learned from my Teacher)

Most of the power draw is from the hdds. I have the same issue. If you want less power consumption. Invest in SSD or SSD and HDD hybrid where you store quick access files on SSD and rare access on hdd (then you can spin them down with timeout of , let’s say 30-60 min). This should save some energy

I like netNewsWire on iOS

Wow, I just tried searching for random objects. It works. I don’t know how if it detects everything but I got some good results.

I forgot to mention. You can obviously self host it. Server and client are open source.

I personally switched to Ente.io for shared photo albums. Works great. Encrypted, cheap and you don’t have to make an account as a guest user. I highly recommend that you give it a try. Also if you want to (opt-in). It got on device AI/ML for face and object recognition.

Two Pi-Hole docker container on two different servers. OpnSense DNS Plugin. Fallback, NextDNS Alternative, AdGuard is also a good DNS.

Bash Script https://privacy.sexy

For PowerShell with GUI irm https://christitus.com/win | iex

Remove generell Bloat with GUI https://github.com/builtbybel/BloatyNosy