And there goes the Video card market again. It was dumb when people blamed NVidia for the 4090 prices going up. Watch as everyone changes their narrative. Hypocrisy is a hell of thing.

5600 has more cache than the 5600G. More cache significantly improves Ryzen performance.

PCPartPicker Part List

YES! I use that right now.

I would be concerned but tbh, living outside the US sometimes it takes weeks to replace drives for servers after a SMART event. We also have servers out of warranty with SMART failing HD that just refuse to die after a decade.

BB has 18TB WD externals that are supposedly white label Reds for 200USD a piece. 7 of those should be nice. That and more RAM.

The manufactures software. In your case

https://support-en.wd.com/app/products/downloads/softwaredownloads

WD Drive Utilities

Western Digital Dashboard

It is expected that some sectors fail over time. The HD is provision with extra space to account for this. The SMART threshold is what you should look at.

outside of a few games, my 2700 holds up well. Too bad it’s effin slow with TrueNAS.