These are SMR drives: Good for sequential writes. Not good (slow) for random access (RAID or system drive).
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However, note that this is likely to be an archive SMR drive that doesn't do well with constant rewrites. This would be good for write once and read many times, but not for write and rewrite.
This drive would generally not be considered good for a NAS but that would depend on your NAS use-case.
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