71 TB NAS and 0 failures

Turning off the whole NAS is really a pain… don’t these drives simply stop spinning after sometime? despite that drives get damaged - by simply being connected on power??

Bit rot is a real issue you cannot escape from… I faced this in some of my music files.

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