for music what I use is AIMP. I only hope it can work with wine because I don’t want to run a VM for it

So unless your usecase requires 2TB+, SSDs are a better choice. Or if it needs 1TB+ and also has immensely high rewrite rates.

that’s good to know, it’ll keep this in mind. thanks!

I have multiple complete disk images of various defunct installs, archived on my nas. That is a prime example for stuff to put into network storage. Even if you use them, loading them up would be comparable in speed to doing it off of an HDD.

does this also stand for when shares are done with SMB? I’m mostly worried about random access there being worse than with a local HDD