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Yes you can use it as a regular desktop drive. A "NAS" drive is just designed to be left on 24/7 year-round. So it's built a little more robustly than a desktop drive. In other words, it's an enterprise drive, while a regular desktop drive is a consumer drive.

The WD "Red" drives also include TLER. (Actually, it's more accurate to say all the WD non-Red drives lack TLER. The drives of all other manufacturers include it, and it's only WD which artificially limits that feature.) That just means a read error will time out after a few seconds (I think it's 8 sec?), instead of Windows trying over and over for about a minute before telling you there was a read error. The latter behavior can cause RAID arrays to drop a drive when the...
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Yes you can use it as a regular desktop drive. A "NAS" drive is just designed to be left on 24/7 year-round. So it's built a little more robustly than a desktop drive. In other words, it's an enterprise drive, while a regular desktop drive is a consumer drive.

The WD "Red" drives also include TLER. (Actually, it's more accurate to say all the WD non-Red drives lack TLER. The drives of all other manufacturers include it, and it's only WD which artificially limits that feature.) That just means a read error will time out after a few seconds (I think it's 8 sec?), instead of Windows trying over and over for about a minute before telling you there was a read error. The latter behavior can cause RAID arrays to drop a drive when the only problem is the one sector containing that file.
 
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this is completely correct.

just understand enterprise drives may be more robust or durable, but they also are LOUD. so expect it to be louder then a normal drive. it's the tradeoff to expect from one.
 
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