I have a 3600 in a NAS and it idles at 25w. My mobo luckily runs fine without a GPU. I pulled it out after the initial install.

I did go back and test and I don’t see the bandwidth limited around 750mbits. I upgraded openwrt since I originally setup QoS. Now I can get my full connection speed if I set the limit artificially high.

I’ve used this for several years as my home router. I find sqm limits the throughput 10% but I disable it for the ingress anyway. Super reliable so far.

Depending on your media that may not really destroy the data. SSDs do wear leveling and it might just write new blocks and reuse the old ones later.

Most of the bad ones are “plant based”. Maybe extracting the protein also concentrates any trace lead.