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Need to expand local storage for local media streaming. Running a regular desktop on linux.

I am willing to spend money on "the best" for streaming purpose while and hopefully something I can keep reusing down the road if it lasts.

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Does no one care about power consumption?

It takes several SSDs to make up the capacity difference between an HDD.

I run 62 16TB HDDs. To make up the same capacity in SSDs I need 2-4x the bays. I don't know of any cheap systems that can hold ~250 bays of ssds.

So an SSD that may only take 1-3w all day... 2-4x that is already equal to the HDD regardless. You're not going to make any ROI metric here.