I read somewhere about larger drives not being well suited for zfs pools, because of the amount of maintenance activity on that storage scheme it takes longer to do on larger drives, and they take a lot longer to replace/resilver if a drive needs to be replaced.

I’m still going with 18tb drives in my zfs pool though 🤷🏻‍♂️

I was with mullvad for a year and the speeds sucked, nordvpn for a few years now and the speeds are great - and I always keep the mesh net feature on my devices so I can remote in without opening ports.

I don’t even really use the vpn service anymore though, just the mesh net. I will probably not renew when my year is up.