But not every Tesla owner is a tech guy. Not every Tesla driver lives in perfect sunny conditions. And in this case, a misinformed (or not informed at all) buyer's "engineering trade off" is death.
As far as fanless micro computers go, they usually tend to go with an enclosed design with the unit itself acting as a giant heat sink. However, with this many disks, maybe it needs an open design? Possibly only for cost.
The tax accountant analogy goes pretty well with this:
The accountant is specialized in doing your taxes (aka serving up your data/files) but you still need to keep a copy of your tax records, receipts, and etc.
We are also not taught how to make the decision to GTFO. I've recently had to make such a decision and really had no prior experience to based anything on. It was a completely new experience.
Yes I eventually made the decision to GTFO but it's still lingering in the back of my head if I made the right one.
This actually brings up a good point. Does this affect IMAP users or any users that not using an Google Gmail App? (iOS, Web, Android, etc) My guess is no?
If you include cheap-o VPS like DigitalOcean into the Rails hosting, then yes you can get it for $5. But then the money you're saving will go into setting up the instance.