It’s cheap because you will pay with the power bill.

Worst is the Western Digital Red drives that are SMR. They are branded as NAS drives but should not be used in anything ZFS. WD caught some heat for making this switch without telling people a couple years ago, even got some legal trouble I think. WD red pro is the one you want. At one point they were swapping them out for CMR drives for folks.

Must be a bios reset jumper somewhere

TrueNas for hosting an SMB, PiHole container and a couple VMs. My proper home lab is on another Proxmox server.