Is there any reason this drive shouldn't be used in a stand-alone PC, rather than NAS system?
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Being Designed for NAS, means it is designed for Network Attached Storage systems which (most of the time) require 24/7 operations and attributes to maintain being apart of a RAID system, such as error recovery, vibration, sound etc. Hard drives designed for RAID systems are likely to be more reliable as well as handle corruption and error handling better than a "desktop" hard drive. Hard Drive's most of the time you get what you pay for regarding performance/storage.
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No, it can work in as standard desktop drive. Being designed for NAS though means it will tolerate being in close proximity to a lot of other disks, for both heat dispersion and resistance to vibrations caused by the other drives. You may be able to get a drive that has better overall performance and a larger cache in a non-NAS version for the same or lower price.
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Internal drive is the primary use so should be ok as long as you have the right connection which I believe for this drive is SATA.
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No this is not a NAS. This is simply a USB NIC which requires a PC to operate.
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This is a set it and forget it NAS. Needs not be re-imaged. And for the price you will pay for this unit, you are better off buying a used case, sticking 4 4TB drives in it and getting a USB flash drive and calling it a night. Thats what I did using Synology's free version of their NAS and sofar its working great. Over 150 days up. I sold this unit last year with over two years of trouble free service. The only reason I sold it was because it was too small for my growing needs. So to answer your question. Not sure. But its also not needed.
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You don't "get the fact that its diskless". This simply means that the NAS is not shipped with hard disks. They must be purchased separately. I would suggest the WD NAS rated drives. Make sure to get 2 of them. Same size.
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I'd STRONGLY recommend against using an old drive in the device. By using one not from Synology's list, you risk poor performance. It would be a drag to set it up and then have slow performance. Don't use an old drive -- they all have a maximum life, and yours could be close to the end and you would never know. Since you're putting it in a 1-bay enclosure with no redundancy, you want to install the most reliable disk you can.
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Good answer. I just wanted to mention for others who may read this that most NAS systems (if that's what you use it in) will do their own disk surface checks during the setup or rebuild.
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Absolutely. there are always SOME weird motherboards and some NAS's that don't like certain HDD's, so it isn't guaranteed, but it's a real nice, solid, good working drive. Read some reviews on it. In RAID 0, by the way, you can make up for the 5400 RPM and make these things scream and still have the low heat, low power consumption.
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It can be used in any system however it was designed as a NAS drive so the features that make it ideal for a NAS would be wasted as a stand alone drive in a computer unless you plan to buy two and use them in a RAID array.
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There are NAS drives that also have USB ports but most of the affordable ones I have seen don't let you use the network and ethernet simultaneously. So with that it would just be unplug the USB, update over ethernet, plug the USB back in. As long as you have 2 sets of cables, I don't think unhooking the drive and hooking it into the computer is a big deal myself...
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You can use it with one drive but you will not be able to use a RAID configuration.
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I've wondered about this too. When I purchased this drive all I wanted was a drive, not a lot of software. And I have no interest in their sharing capability on social media. Maybe someone can answer this, like Seagate themselves.
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Yes. With any application there is a balance between speed, efficiency, and heat generation. With a NAS speed is less important for a small group of users. You will probably get better performance for a desktop with another drive that has a faster spindle speed and more cache. I only buy Hitachi drives and have for years because of their reliability. They made the drives for IBM servers for many years. They shipped in HP servers and I never saw one fail.
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Yes, no doubts. This hard drive designed for NAS systems and supposed to work 24x7 so it is very reliable but could be a bit slower in read/write/seek tasks than hard drives designed for performance .
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I would buy it diskless. You are assured of getting the drives you want. Some commented that they got WD Green drives with a filled unit. I disagree with John Russo here, I have never seen a NAS that was a better deal when bought as a filled unit.
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You can configure the drive however you like (raid 1 or 0) and it works stand-alone or daisy chained. It's a very flexible and reliable drive.
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No, this is not a NAS (network attached storage). It doesn't run on its own. It needs to be connected to your laptop to work. Try the QNAP and the Synology products. Those are standalone NAS units that can run Plex.