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Originally Posted by turtle
(lots of really good answers and info)
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Thanks again, T!
This really puts my fears at ease and nudges me closer to the "just buy the damn appliance" camp.
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Originally Posted by turtle
Go diskless and shuck drives.
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I'm so glad you used the term "shuck" here. In my circle of IRL friends and colleagues, I think I'm the only person ever to use it this way!
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Originally Posted by drewprops
Where do Y'ALL buy your NAS? Your drives? (I'm assuming you have to fill them yourself)
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Yeah, a "diskless NAS" has no hard drives, and you have to fill it with your own. That's generally the way to go because bundled drives are always going to be overpriced.
Speaking of shucking drives, see
https://shucks.top 
(Alternatively
https://diskprices.com/ for many more options)
The term is borrowed from oyster shucking. Many high-capacity external drives actually have really good hardware inside them, and you have to pry the delicious innards out of the hard plastic case. Inside the plastic is just a normal desktop hard drive that you can install into a PC or a NAS.
Here's a video explaining how to non-destructively shuck a Western Digital Easystore external drive. I followed these steps for another one of my drives (not one of the ones that failed) several months ago:
https://youtu.be/pMudTWoMvsY