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

How we check facts and prices: methodology · corrections log

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