Those were different times.

They are not relevant anymore with current self hosting setups.

I wouldn’t say it is the best hardware, but it is definitely the best bang for your buck

It all depends on how safe you want your data to be.

Second Hard drives should be fine with enough redundancy.

I’d rather run 2 secondhand drives in Raid 1 than a single new drive.

“Get yer dicks here, fresh dicks, only slightly used!”