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Object storage should ideally be less taxing on CPU as you dont have to deal with file system logic. But you will need an object storage aware fs or db running on it. Seagate kinetics is the only one hdd line on the market that has native object storage api.

What a port multiplexer does is it gets multiple physical sata links and combines them into one at the cost of bandwidth

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