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Good point, but let’s say you download 20 new movies, meaning rewrite to every block on the drive each week. That’s barely 1,000 write cycles a year, and we’re still talking about a hundred thousand write cycles, which would take 100 years. Even if you start seeing bad blocks at 10,000 write cycles, by the time the drives are wearing out, the cost of replacement drives should be considerably lower.

Yep, and it used to be free for personal use, although I don’t know if that’s the case anymore. Either way, I will highly recommend it.

The write cycles shouldn’t really be an issue for a home NAS because you’re not erasing and rewriting over and over. For commercial projects, where logs, security video, or rotating data needs to be stored and erased hundreds of thousands of times.

Is ngrok still a thing?

What do you use the Pi for now?

I had a bunch of Pi 3Bs sitting around, so I made piholes for a few friends and family, I made a dedicated MAME emulator that I never have time to play, and I gave one to each of my kids to learn about computers and linux. I also use one for work as a linux test environment for our software, but the 3 hardware doesn’t really keep up.

I would be very interested to read this in an article format, but I have zero interest in watching a video about it.

I haven’t done it myself, so I hesitate to recommend a specific project. But Carpi and OpenAuto are good places to start.

Why risk it? Build your own with a raspberry pi and a touchscreen.