Home NAS builders are a specific kind of obsessive — they know the difference between a drive rated for NAS workloads and a desktop drive running 24/7, they have opinions about RAID levels, and they will tell you exactly why cloud storage is a subscription to someone else's hard drive. These gifts serve the person already running TrueNAS or Unraid and building the network around it.
“The one reliable rule of gift-giving: anything that makes them look more serious at what they love will be received with disproportionate gratitude.”
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