I use Alpine Linux for all my dockers, small and fast.

Nope, you have to do the bypass

2.5" disks are SMR, you don’t want that in a raid.

No not really, even with a couple of hundred employees it would be a lot for that.

Does zoom do a ton more than the meeting app since they have 7500 employees?

It’s called power supply idle control, worth a test.

There is an issue with ryzen and certain PSUs that when it goes to idle it pulls so little power that the psu thinks it’s off and kills the power, it can appear as a hang. there should be an option in the bios to change it to “typical power” or named something similar.

If I where you I would just buy a regular case that can fit a decent amount of HDDs like a fractal define 7 or one of its older versions and transplant your current computer into that with some new drives. 100tb is 5 20tb drives so you don’t need that many.

USB enclosures are not a great way to handle storage as USB tends to be unreliable.

Around 40C

I have a 12 drive setup in a define 7 (not xl) and it’s working fine. As long as I keep the filters decently clean from dust the temps are fine.