Yeah sharks don't like the taste of people but they generally have poor eyesight so they mistake surfers etc splashing on the surface for food or as you say just curious.

Becoming fat/obese

That's one of my issues with premium, I expect no ads with it but you would still get all the sponsorship stuff which are ads.

Nope, you have to do the bypass

2.5" disks are SMR, you don't want that in a raid.

Unless you have use case for that much horsepower I would suggest, like others here, buy a mini PC as a start and if you need more down the line buy a second one. They are cheap, fairly quiet and don't use much power.

That's not why it's repeated a 1000 times, it's so when you actually do want to buy something in that category you're more likely to buy theirs because it's familiar.

The newer ones usually have some smart stuff built in

If I where you I would just buy a regular case that can fit a decent amount of HDDs like a fractal define 7 or one of its older versions and transplant your current computer into that with some new drives. 100tb is 5 20tb drives so you don't need that many.

USB enclosures are not a great way to handle storage as USB tends to be unreliable.

Because they are just rebranding oem devices

They gave the artist a bunch of money that was supposed to be used in the piece and was to be returned once done. It wasnt used nor returned.

Linux both at home and work.

Switched my desktop at home to Linux in 2017 and gaming works well, rarely any problems.