Amara Okonkwo

Amara Okonkwo works out what a NAS costs to run over a year and ranks drive prices by Canadian dollars per terabyte at nasdrives.ca. She looks after the NAS-drive reference — the pages on the individual families such as IronWolf, WD Red and N300, and the capacity pages — and keeps the value maths behind them current.

Her yardstick is cost per terabyte in CAD, not sticker price: a seemingly cheap drive is quickly the dearer one once you count the capacity, and a frugal appliance earns its premium back on the hydro bill. Price data comes from the regular Amazon.ca sync; power figures are worked against real provincial rates, because a kilowatt-hour costs very different money in Quebec than in Ontario or Alberta, and she shows the scenario openly rather than hiding an estimate as a measurement.

Where a number rests on an assumption — annual draw, a province's rate — Amara marks it and shows the arithmetic, so a reader can substitute their own rate and redo the sum.

Focus areas: NAS power draw · Provincial hydro rates · CAD per terabyte · Price-to-value

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