Your question is irrelevant as claiming "you either support 100% paid or you support 100% free distribution" is a false dichotomy.
CmdrShepard
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You're not using their distribution service when you pirate something. That's the whole point.
Do you think I should be forced to pay for a ticket if I'm standing next to the concert venue on the sidewalk but can still hear the performance?
You're stealing their time. That's not really comparable since the people who made the tv show or movie you're pirating have already been paid.
Piracy isn't costing these companies any money if people never intended on giving them money in the first place. This argument almost implies that these companies have an inherent right to our money whether we want to spend it with them or not.
Don't use Amazon or Ebay, use something like serverpartdeals.com so you know you're not buying from some fly-by-night company that'll disappear when you try to do a warranty claim.
$18/TB is a crazy high price. I've bought most of all my WD drives new for <$15/TB by waiting for sales on Easystore/Element drives
You can still use one of these with the NAS as storage. A Synology doesn't have a lot of horsepower to run programs directly on their hardware so if you plan on doing something like a media server you might encounter some issues. An optiplex (or any other PC) running Proxmox will let you run a bunch of different containers or VMs separately
Good to know. Thanks for sharing the link
Relying on a UL logo isn't much protection as you must trust that the company is being honest in using it. Best bet is to rely on a company's reputation, which may not result in you getting a quality product, but it should be safe at the very least.
I live on the west coast where cities aren't as dense as the boroughs of NYC or most eastern states.
Considering this guy is looking to slap some drives into his personal computer in order to store some movies, who gives a shit if they're enterprise drives or not? I have numerous 6 year old 'junk' drives in my server that haven't given me a single issue the entire time powered on 24/7. It's not like he's looking for drives to put in a Facebook datacenter.