Why Your NAS Is Wasting Power on Cold Files
Most home labbers and more than a few enterprise IT teams build storage systems under a quiet delusion: that every byte they own needs to be one millisecond away, forever. It's why people drop $3,000 on an 8-bay NAS, fill it with matched enterprise drives, and run RAID-Z2 around the clock — for a media library they touch twice a month and a backup folder they hope to never open again.
The data lifecycle curve isn't subtle. The vast majority of files go cold within the first 30 to 90 days of being written, and after a year, the odds of any individual file getting opened again drop into the single digits.
Keeping that cold tail on power-hungry NVMe or a constantly-spinning array isn't redundancy, it's a recurring charge. This is a piece about a different default: cheap and deep. Cold data gets cheap, dense, low-power media. Hot data...
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