The drives are fairly new. Have less than 350 hours on them. No errors so far, but runs a little warmer than usual. Long term reliability is unknown. Taking somewhat of a risk by buying non-NAS specific drives. I don't like the fact that it already has over 700+ Load Cycle Counts in less than 14 days.
Thought about running ESXI and running both DSM and NAS4Free, but the MB/CPU platform doesn't support VT-d so no hard drive pass-through capability. I'm sure there are workarounds, but I have not investigated it.
System is just used for home storage. Already used 15-TB for movies (HD rips), program archives, game archives, family pictures, family videos, backups, etc. No porn collection. Margie wouldn't like that if she found out.
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Was considering switching to DSM to make the box more useful instead of just a NAS box. DSM has plugins like Plex, Surveillance Station, etc that I could use. We'll see. It's too much work to convert over now.