What is the difference between the hard drive that is labeled as a enterprise or a bare drive?
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but remember kids, starting and stopping any of today's modern hard drives can wear them out. sometimes optimal performance is achieved over time by running your *regular* hdds 24/7 as well. spun up. won up.
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A bare drive refers to getting the drive only without retail packaging (no mounting hardware, instructions, etc). An enterprise drive can be sold as a bare drive. An enterprise drive is rated for 7/24 operation (it is rated to run continuously ).
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A "bare drive" is a drive offered by a seller without cables, literature or any other materials normally provided and packaged by retail manufacturer/seller. Such "bare drives" are typically packaged appropriately for protection during shipping. My experience with "bare drives" has been as good.
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I don't know if you can be sure, but I bought mine over 3 months ago and it is the removable drive version.
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It's exactly like a portable hard drive. The difference is,it's solid state and has no moving parts.
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It's a typo on Amazon. The drive is SATA III. Hardly any drive are SATA III anymore. Click here -&gt; http://www.wdc.com/global/products/specs/?driveID=1049&language=1
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Sorry, I don't understand the question. I don't know much about the drive. The one in my Dell Inspiron failed and this was a good economical replacement.
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The NAS drives are more a hardware difference than software. Sure they may offer some enterprise features like secure erase in hardware, etc. but the real difference is the hardware. These drives are designed to better dampen internal generated and externally received vibrations. This design is due to the close proximity of the drives and the 24/7 operation. Check the specs and these drive typically rank between desktop and enterprise drives in terms of MTBF. They may have longer warranties as well. All-in-all it simply boils down to how much do you love your data? What is being stored on the NAS. Is it precious? I ran a DroboFS for two years with WD green drives. I replaced them with these drives thinking this was a better choice for my circumstances. The choice is ultimately yours.
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I would recommend using one on Thecus's compatibility list: http://www.thecus.com/download/compatibility/hdd/N4520SERIES_N2800_N4800_N4800Eco_N5550_N4510U_N7510_HDD_SSD_list.pdf Also consider that Enterprise rated drives will last longer and potentially perform a bit faster, but might not be worth the price bump for just backups.
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It has a solid state hybrid drive (SSHD). What that means is that it has a combination of a regular hard drive (500GB) fused with a SSD drive (24GB). If you want to learn more about it, there is a great Wikipedia article that you can find easily by doing a Google search for hybrid drives.
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"Drive Only" is a bare hard drive. A "resellers kit" contains the drive, SATA cable, etc.
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The drive itself is exactly the same (tray loading). The difference is the included software bundle.
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It appears that the other hard drive has comparable specs. However it comes with a different firmware. Otherwise I think it is likely a matter of packaging and marketing.
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There is a 3.5" to 2.5" metal bracket in the resellers box. bare drive version is just a bare drive.
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Hard Drive wqrranties start as of the data of Manufacture. I have no idea about the whether this is the actual drive or a stock photo. I could only guess it is a photo of the actual drive.
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I ordered the 2TB model, and it came without a drive. I imagine that there is something incorrectly listed in the 2TB model listing.
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I open both inside is same hard drive very fat sata hard 16.5 mm drive 5400 rpm that will not fit on any of the laptops that I try. software inside is the same ,only difference is the outside case one is a little smaller, also sometimes there is a big difference in price, one is shiny , difference maybe software?
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I do not know. I liked this drive and the way it worked very much. I ended up having to buy a new computer, but this little drive worked very well.