Pretty sure that was home assistant. I had the same issue. Phone would even get piping hot. Killed home assistant, problem solved. I’m connected to VPN to home using openvpn 24/7. Too lazy to switch to wireguard :p

WD reds I believe are smr, wd red pros are cmr, or at least that was a thing for a while that WD did silently.

Pretty sure something like 10 years ago crashplan deleted a bunch of customer data in a deduplication job gone wrong.

Gross, don’t give car manufacturers any ideas.