So I was on amazon the other day, and I say a 4TB drive. Immediately I thought that this would be a great replacement for my 1.5TB drive for my documents and what not. Maybe even running a RAID setup between the 2, but I noticed it was a NAS drive. Honestly, I don't know what the hell that is, and I was wondering if anyone could tell me the difference between the two and if they would be good enough to run my programs off of and put my documents on. Thanks!
Different with Desktop Grade and NAS drives
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JaredDM
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- Jul 8, 2015
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A NAS drive will perform just as well for running programs, etc. as a desktop drive. The basic difference is that NAS drives have built in features that help them to operate in environments where there's multiple drives installed next to each other creating harmonic vibration. Other drives can sometimes have issues with this. Also NAS drives are designed such that during long periods of inactivity they slow the spindle rate to save power rather than actually spinning down. This allows for faster access when a network request comes in. However you may find that in a desktop, the drive will never spin down even if it's configured to do so.
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