My 1tb wd black hdd from 2009 that I paid a lot for is still in my rig to this day

It’s not visible from the internet at all, that’s about it

It’s actually fine.

Just make sure you enable and disable the right services on it and enjoy

No. My media data is not important enough

Important photos are triple cloud backed up.

Management port is to configure the device remotely, on another network

Console port is to do it physically Altough i have seen some networks setup to also use it remotely