Any drive should read faster than media playback. I’d check the actual read speed and playback logs to make sure you’re not having other issues.

32gb loop of Never Gonna Give You Up

I encrypt the whole disk.

If there’s nothing precious, wipe it.

Mounting a drive is the function of the OS. If you mean automatically disabling a port, no, typically motherboards don’t have that functionality.

Nothing. The field isn’t strong enough to affect the drive. They have much stronger magnets inside them all the time.

You could just use any other object too.

Two anti-cheat tools, TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot, will be required to play the new COD.

Saved you a click, if you didn’t already guess. I’m not sure how they’d be using the TPM, but there’s no reason you shouldn’t already have it enabled. Secureboot has debatable value, but if you’re on Windows having it enabled doesn’t hurt anything either.

If you’re using stuff like torrent clients, you can bind just those containers to gluetun. I recommend doing that instead of all of them. And then yeah the VPN server on the host.

It should work, but you may need to fiddle with routing.