Never connect a TV to the internet, ever. Amazon already not so secretly controls and monitors my life, so I just keep it in the fam and use a Firestick 4K Max.

All that connecting a TV to the internet will do is bring you continued disappointment, with rare upsides such as an elusive good firmware update, as most rarely improve something on the TV without fucking something else up or including a huge downside.

Why do you think they’ve gotten so cheap lately? They are sold at a loss because they rape your data and feed you ads… again just like everything else.

Most people who do what you want to do have a more complicated setup with a separate SSID for IOT stuff on it’s own isolated VLAN with firewall rules to specific things on the main network such as a Plex/Emby server, ect, if needed.

Just like most things on reddit, overblown… obviously we all have random failures. I have a Dell R510 with 12x4TB disks. I had one develop bad sectors and another have some kind of issue that was cause it to make the array lock up. I think it was an issue with its board on the drive.

At the same time I have another R510 that is my cold backup with 12x2TB disks… no problems. Almost all my disks are used pulled from the company I used to work for… don’t give a shit.

If you backup or have multiple copies of stuff, who cares if drives die.