You’re weighing speed & energy usage vs cost. With a small array, HDDs power draw difference probably won’t amount to much and you may hit the RPi’s I/O bottleneck before fully benefiting from SSDs speeds, though latency would be better.

But TL;DR: If your goal is to learn and build something cheap, go HDD. If you hate it, you can upgrade over time.

Yeah… Just because you say you’d prefer to not take responsibility doesn’t absoluve you from responsibility.

Unless it does, in which case I will begin committing crimes and saying that constantly.

Oh, sorry. They meant, “No smoke; without fire” it’s like the firewatcher’s “All clear”. There’s no smoke and they’re without fire.

By “Share”, I assumed with other password managers that supported PassKeys.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a file, it could be the config like a TOTP code is.

When you say bitwarden syncs between PC and phone, which service does it sync with on these platforms? I didn’t know bitwarden synced with any other service.

I don’t think it has the ability to export/share.