@Gumberculese My desktop external array has a cold spare nearby, just in case. I've changed the array type from 10 to 5 recently to get some more usable space (which required a full wipe and restore, yay for the real test of backups).
The desktop is one of the last intel based iMac, and I maxed its ram out quite a while ago. It's just now starting to creak under load from Capture One etc when working with my photos. It's also not upgradable to the last several revs of MacOS.
Might be replacing both in the next few years, but for. now they are chugging along fine. Probably some future version of my photo tools will force the computer upgrade before hardware failure does. Drives ... seem to be ok for heading to ten years in service. (Famous last words, waiting for the catastrophic all drives going bad in a week or something).
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