Frankly, I think that's a bit of an over reaction. Scrubs are normal and I don't think it's true that a drive read a month will wear them out. Sequential reads

Frankly, I think that's a bit of an over reaction. Scrubs are normal and I don't think it's true that a drive read a month will wear them out. Sequential reads are easy on drives. Encryption, only if that's really important to you. I don't think most people run with two NAS drives but you do need to find a way to backup what is really critical/important. My article is geared towards home users / hobbyists and I wonder how many people have syslog running. Just plain email alerting would be a good first step and probably sufficient.