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Only if you actually have it running that long. The whole thing is powered off most of the time.
That's how I plan to live to 160...being powered off most of the time
Sure, and while that is not something commercial deployments can do, it's reasonable for personal home NAS.
Depending on when you want access to your nas.
I have a 2 drive NAS that only takes a few seconds to spin up when I want to use it.