I’m looking to get a new internal hard drive for a specific use case:
- it’s for a desktop, meaning I can fit either
- i need 2TB, no more and no less, also meaning I can get either
- it’s for my media collection, mostly movies
- it’s not gonna be read-only, but I wouldn’t write too often (I would torrent, but all the program’s metadata would be on another drive)
- most likely gonna be formatted with btrfs (subject to change, open to suggestion)
Should I get the 2.5 inch or the 3.5 one?
Thanks in advance.

Sorry, I realize now that I actually don’t know this much about HDDs. I dont know about SMR, or how rpm affects longevity.
The extent size was suggested by ZFS docs: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Performance and Tuning/Workload Tuning.html#bit-torrent
(I made a mistake. They’re recommended record size is 16k)