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18 TB WD Red Pro NAS HDD $309.99
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LIMITED TIME: Buy 2 18TB drives for $619.98.
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It's all about uptime - it would an overkill if you don't plan to run your media PC 24x7.
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Dumb question, but would a nas drive be okay to use as a media drive for a PC?
My friend, there never is a dumb question here. One of the features I love about SlickDeals is the comments section. There is a lot of Q&A that takes place and so much valuable information that is shared. The way you asked the question was very humble (which IMHO is very admirable), but please always feel free to ask questions. Also, I guarantee someone else has the same question, but possibly may be hesitant to ask.
Regarding your question: yes, you could use this HDD (Hard Disk Drive) as a media drive in your PC. However, I would recommend an SSD (Solid State Drive) in your PC instead. You'll see much better performance, better durability, and lower power consumption with a SSD. A HDD (like the one in this deal post), is slower (they use moving parts...spinning platters with read/write heads) and less durable, but they are cheaper. Also, as others have mentioned, this drive has been engineered for a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) setup working 24x7x365. So, you could use it in your PC, but I'd go with an SSD.
No matter which one you pick, make sure your media drive is backed up. Local storage, cloud storage, anything that will give you insurance in case that media drive fails.
Hope this helps!
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NAS drives are typically rated for 24/7/365 use so if anything it should be much more reliable. The downside potentially is that they can be louder.
I am in the market for a 12TB, one of my red WD NAS drives died after 6+ years but I'd love to stay under the $15/tb mark.. I'll appreciate any recommendations
Dumb question, but would a nas drive be okay to use as a media drive for a PC?
My friend, there never is a dumb question here. One of the features I love about SlickDeals is the comments section. There is a lot of Q&A that takes place and so much valuable information that is shared. The way you asked the question was very humble (which IMHO is very admirable), but please always feel free to ask questions. Also, I guarantee someone else has the same question, but possibly may be hesitant to ask.
Regarding your question: yes, you could use this HDD (Hard Disk Drive) as a media drive in your PC. However, I would recommend an SSD (Solid State Drive) in your PC instead. You'll see much better performance, better durability, and lower power consumption with a SSD. A HDD (like the one in this deal post), is slower (they use moving parts...spinning platters with read/write heads) and less durable, but they are cheaper. Also, as others have mentioned, this drive has been engineered for a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) setup working 24x7x365. So, you could use it in your PC, but I'd go with an SSD.
No matter which one you pick, make sure your media drive is backed up. Local storage, cloud storage, anything that will give you insurance in case that media drive fails.
Hope this helps!
For media consumption, an HDD is just fine. Where an SSD come in is booting up your system. I have EXOS and WD Datacenter drives for my mega PC, but for local storage on other PCs, an SSD is fine.
Keep in mind that SSDs are $75 per TB (max 4 TB), and HDD's like this are $16 per TB. You can also fit a lot more (18 vs 4) on an HDD. SSD have gotten a LOT cheaper over time, and actually were cheaper than this 2 years ago, but we won't see a glut on SSD enough to move pricing for at least another year.
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SSD are gigantic compared to HDD. Kioxia [tomshardware.com] just dropped a 245 TB 2.5" Gen 5 NVME.
HDD suck at everything except $/TB and cold storage. Well, also in my experience they fail more gracefully. They tend to throw up errors and odd behaviors before giving up the ghost.
I believe 36TB is the largest you can get in HDD drives and that is 3.5, not 2.5 like the SSD I mentioned.
Not sure where you got that 4TB number from. Even 8TB consumer SSD drives are widely available.
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