NAS HDDs vs. Regular SATA Drives--Worth It? - Spiceworks …
Jan 20, 2015 · I was researching this for drive upgrades in a home box. for WD drives the wdidle3 tool allows some tuning. it turns out one difference in green vs red for example is the time to park the heads. more parking usually leads to more wear (but higher energy savings). a green may be set to park the heads after 8 seconds while the red 300 seconds. many folks have taken greens and set to 300 seconds ...
NAS or Enterprise drives for NAS device - Spiceworks Community
Aug 9, 2015 · The Most Reliable Hard Drive 2015. Each quarter, Backblaze updates our hard drive statistics with the latest data. As of the end of Q2 2015, there were 47,561 drives spinning in our datacenter. Subtracting out boot drives, drive models with less than 45 drives and drives in testing... Est. reading time: 5 minutes
Using a NAS or Surveillance/DVR hard drive in a Desktop
Jan 1, 2018 · Hello, which disadvantages do I have when I use NAS or DVR HDDs for “normal use” in a desktop 8/5 or in a non-raid configuration in 24/7 operation? There are many different opinions out there from “no problem, if your system don´t use the special ata commands of dvr drives then they work like normal hdds” to “oh no better not - the risk of data loss is higher because the firmware is ...
Can we use NAS hard drives in server - Spiceworks Community
Apr 6, 2017 · There are three major types of hard drives: Desktop, NAS, and Enterprise. Here is a good articles that illustrates the differences: Pick The Right Drive For The Job — 24/7 NAS HDDs vs. Desktop HDDs - StorageReview.com
Different brand HDDs on NAS - Spiceworks Community
Sep 9, 2021 · We have a Synology NAS which is around 4 years old. We initially had installed HGST 6TB NAS 7200RPM, 3.5" HDD on all the 5 bays, Setup on RAID10. Lately I have seen these HGST showing up bad sectors and trying to buy the same HGST 6TB HDDs online and they have become expensive now. Wondering if we can buy WD/Segate or some other compatible 6TB NAS drives and install them on the Synology NAS ...
HDD docking station vs NAS for archiving data
Mar 10, 2021 · No, a normal NAS will not work like a docking station. I don’t consider these one-bay NAS consumer models as normal NAS. And be aware that the storage controllers and the hard disk drives are not built for frequent pulling and inserting. So some of their connectors may become damaged (bent) by frequent change.
Using a NAS HDD (Red WD) as a secondary HDD in a Desktop?
May 16, 2016 · Hi. We upgraded a 2 hard drives (RAID 1) in a Synology NAS from 2TB to 3TB. Disks are NASware Western Digital Red drives. So we have 2 WD NAS disks (2TB each) and we want to use it. Can we use the NAS disks in a Desktop as a share repository for Backup Exec destination? Can we use for Torrent data storage? Desktops are ON 24/7 There is any cons on using this drive designed for NAS operation ...
Clarification between 512e vs 4kn vs 512n Hard Drives
Aug 11, 2016 · These numbers have to do with the physical sector size of the drive. 512n drives have a 512 byte physical sector size. 512e and 4Kn have 4096 byte sectors, with 512e presenting itself to the system as if it had 512 byte sectors. 512e and 4Kn are newer standards, 512e being the transition standard between 512n and 4Kn, and are not recognized by ...
Hard drive sounds - Hardware - Spiceworks Community
Jun 30, 2023 · The drive is designed for NAS units and has a 5 year warranty - yes, some Exos models make this noise, the 5 x 10TB in my NAS do and sometimes it sounds louder than I’d like, but it’s likely normal.
Bad Sectors Detected - RAID 6 - Buffalo NAS - Spiceworks …
Mar 9, 2020 · In order to reduce the stress, you can take the faulty drive to a separate PC/Server/USB enclosure in order to clone it 1-to-1 with a new drive and plug the new drive back. Most modern NAS models will be able to recognize the newly replaced drive as such one that has consistent data and bypass the rebuilding process.