Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have a total of 9 drives currently "in use" (i.e. which I'd have to > replace if they were to die). I suspect you have many more.
Also the quality of the drives is important. Leslie puts a 10G network interface, but by the speed you calculated, he has either poor controller and/or poor drives. I found out best drives for NAS and home server (in terms of price/quality) were WD Red precisely WD20EFRX. I saw last year there were complains of the 3 and 4TB drives, but the 2TB are solid. So in about 15y I replaced many IDE and later SATA drives, but since I use the WD20EFRX I did not have any issues. So the high number Leslie replaces might have a different cause.
