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I see your point. I'm using the NAS exclusively for onsite backup, and for streaming a bit of media (which is also saved in my PC). So, if I lose the NAS, I just lose my backup; it's not primary storage for me.
In my 20+ years of building and running PCs, I've had seemingly more motherboard and RAM failures than harddrive failures. Even if you have everything mirrored in RAID1, what happens if you lose the NAS itself? You can't just plug the drives into a windows PC. How difficult would that be to recover from (other than buying an identical NAS to plug them in to)?
We all have our different experiences I suppose with PC hardware. I have been building PCs for about as long as you.
#1 failure - fans
#2 hard drives
#3 RAM
#4 video cards
#5 motherboards
Only hard drive failures cause loss of data (RAM or motherboard might corrupt data, but not much). I think performance these days is more than adequate for every need I have. That's why my main PC is happily running an overclocked Q6600 processor. It is still "snappy" and more than fast enough to edit video.
Raid0 guarantees data loss if a drive fails. Data is less likely to be available than a single drive of the same total capacity.
I understand everyone has different priorities. But I have a lot of important "stuff" in my computers. And I would rather not spend hours recovering it if possible. Saving a few milliseconds isn't important to me anymore.