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> The 4 TB HGST drives have roughly 6000 hours on them after ten years.

So they mostly sit idle? Mine are about ~4 years old with ~35,000 hours.

To quote myself from a few lines below that fragment:

> My NAS is turned off by default. I only turn it on (remotely) when I need to use it.

I loved the idea around the 10Gb NICs but wondered what model switch are you connecting to? And what throughput is this topology delivering?

I don't have a 10Gb switch. I connect this server directly to two other machines as they all have 2 x 10Gbit. This NAS can saturate 10Gbit but the other side can't, so I'm stuck at 500-700 MB/s, I haven't measured it in a while.

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