Help with node optimizations / best practices

Check the backblaze stat

The greater disk and lower the quality - the bitrot is the inevitable event.
In the RAID setup it’s - fatality, unless you use ZFS and in the any pool with a redundancy.
Otherwise you have a lower risk for a single drive setup with a plain ext4 for Linux and NTFS for Windows (please, DO NOT MIX the OS and FS).