Hold up, wait. @the_eric are you seriously telling me that thing is actually called a banjo? Like the musical instrument? I just looked at mine sitting in the garage and I swear I can see it now. No wonder the guy at the trade show was smirking when I handed over the cash. That's almost as bad as the tool itself jamming up on me.

Oh, I used to be right there with you on that one. I remember rolling my eyes at people getting all excited about something like pouring hot water down a drain. But then my own sink clogged up last month and I tried that trick after seeing it online, and honestly it worked like a charm. I was just so relieved to not have to call a plumber or buy some harsh chemical, that I totally get the impulse to say you owe someone a beer now. It's not about the difficulty of the fix, it's about the peace of mind when something actually works.

Oh man, this is one of those things where the name makes it sound way more important than it actually is. It's like when people call something "all natural" on food labels and you think it means healthy, but really it just means no fake colors. @spencer_gonzalez1 makes a good point though - those internal errors are still the main source of trouble for most home setups. I've noticed this pattern everywhere lately where companies use big technical words to make things sound fancier than they really are, and it catches regular people off guard. For a home server that's just chugging along with media or backups, the extra cost and hassle of full ECC feels like overkill. You'd probably get more real value from a better UPS or a redundant drive.

Yeah @jenny_lane12 that eBay move is smart, I've seen those things save whole setups before.

That freeflow at depth is just the cheaper metal expanding differently than the KM silica bronze.