I used to have a 5700G system that I had to switch out to a 14600k system due to quciksync pass through.

I got my 14600K down to 55w from 75w with everything else being equal. Insane how efficient some setups can be.

My 16tb Pi sips at 13w max or 8w idle. But no encoding or enough storage for normal work. So it’s warm storage

We use Tailscale to share between accounts.

But for large transfers I use an encrypted HDD.