![]() ![]() The bottom line here is, don’t use standard Desktop Hard Disk Drives in your servers or NAS devices. Where you can, always buy business-grade products and services. I’m always stressing to business professionals that to buy cheaper consumer electronics to use for work purposes is a false-economy. ![]() It has features to reduce excessive vibration and noise in a NAS or RAID environment, and comes with premium support and a 3-year warranty out of the box. The WD Red range is built for reliability. It’s in these scenarios for power-users, servers and NAS devices that the WD Red range comes in. ![]() That’s fine for standard users, but for power-users (such as designers, architects, creatives, photographers, etc) who hammer their hard drive all day, every day, a standard Hard Disk drive is going to start to feel the strain.Īnd when you’re picking a hard drive to fit inside a server or NAS device, then you need to look for a Hard Drive that is built to be able to run 24x7x365. The drive is expecting to be powered down for long periods of time - while you go off to lunch, when you shutdown your PC at the end of the day, or when you’re distracted by the latest videos of cats doing funny things on your Smartphone for long-periods of time. When I say intermittently, I mean that you’re not using the hard disk continuously. The Hard Drive that is installed in your standard laptop or desktop PC is often designed and tested to be intermittently running for 8-12 hours a day. The first thing to be aware of is that all Hard Drives are not the same. So when the folks at Western Digital reached out to me to see if I was interested in trying out their new 8TB WD Red NAS Hard Drive, I jumped at the chance! WD Red vs Desktop Hard Drives My trusty 2 Terabyte (TB) Network Attached Storage (NAS) had faithfully served me for many years hosting files for my business, media (movies, music and photographs) for the home and backups of other critical data - but even 2TB was beginning to look a little too-small for my requirements. These are just three of the questions I set out to answer as I explored upgrading the local storage here at Tubb Towers. How do you pick the right Hard Disk Drive for the job? Aren’t all Hard Drives the same? Doesn’t the Cloud remove the need for local storage? ![]()
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