Yep. Smaller, more energy efficient (extremes expensive electricity here, over 1€/kW at peak time summers), and more temperature resiliant (had to shut the rust based nas down in peak summer months as it could not keep drives cool enough with 3k rpm ippc fans)

11x 4tb drives in mine. Raidz3. Paired with a Xeon and 64gb of ram. All in a 5L case.

Bonding, or is the cat trying to borrow the braincell?