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I think this might strike the right balance.
I kinda get where everyone else is coming from, about enterprise grade drives being more performance than needed, but with the reliability of these drives it just doesn't make sense to me to get rid of them all. The power use difference between these and other NAS drives is pretty negligible, and the parts needed to utilize a SAS array aren't all that expensive in comparison to buying new drives (even if I sold all of these, I don't think i could get as much for them as what even a used consumer drive would be).
These are 4TB drives, so an array of 4 in a raid 5 configuration would get me 12 TB. I could go up to a more redundant raid with more disks, so maybe I'll get a shelf/case that can hold 6 or 8 or even 12, and plan for adding more later. I have a high-efficiency micro-atx sitting on my desk with a couple empty PCIE slots, all i'm missing I think is a SAS controller and a case/PSU.
I'm always hurting for more space, so to me it's smart even just to have them sitting on a shelf for when I need another.