I dumped all my CD-Rs and DVD-Rs ages ago as we don’t have a physical player any more, not including game consoles.

Oh thanks for the reminder about Slow Horses!

There is a sync option on the Apple TV that uses your iPhone to configure itself.

rsync over ssh is my preference, otherwise sftp. Don’t use ftp, everything over it is plaintext including your login credentials.

ZFS scrubs. I sleep well at night and haven’t lost a byte of valuable data in 15+ years.