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  1. Oh, certainly... Which is why I'd written on the 22nd of March in the thread that - "Obviously the downside to what we're suggesting though is voiding the warranty by shucking them..." So, it was about agreeing with you that going for NAS/Enterprise drives is a good thing; esp as you start to increase the drive count - BUT that this didn't contradict what had been suggested earlier about shucking the WD externals IF purchase price trumped warranty.
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  2. Along with balancing personal budget, price/TB & warranty (if that matters to you) & whatnot... ...it's also about how many HDDs you can physically connect up vs how your data's growing - since many people get by with just a small SSD in a laptop - whilst others (like myself) are 'data-whores' have many 10s or 100s of TBs of random stuff. As to looking at NAS storage, part of the reason why people look at shucking the higher capacity WD external drives is that they all use WD/HGSC helium 5400rpm filled drives - which are effectively equivalent to the WD Reds... (some of the smaller capacity ones switched to using WD Greens/Blues - I believe only <=4TB but I don't know that for certain) ...though they 'may' alternatively be some version of a WD Gold or HTSC HC500 or...??? ...all of which are designed for NAS - but buying the external drives is cheaper.
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  3. You can run snapraidhelper (on CodePlex) as a scheduled task to test, sync, scrub and e-mail the results on a simple schedule. If you like, you can even use the "running file" drivepool optionally creates while balancing to trigger it. Check my post history.
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