Hot swap drives are necessary on data centers where you don't want to have to pull the whole server and open the top cover just to replace a disk. But on a hom

Hot swap drives are necessary on data centers where you don't want to have to pull the whole server and open the top cover just to replace a disk. But on a home NAS? What problem would having to power it down and power it on for drive replacement create? You're going to resync the array anyways. I don't mind them and I do use them but I consider them a very small QOL improvement. I don't really replace my disks all that often. And now that you can get 30TB enterprise samsung SSDs for 2k, two of those babies in raid 1 + an optane cache gives you extremely fast and reliable storage in a very small footprint.