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NAS Not all drives are equal - choosing the right drive for you
One of the most important decisions you will make when purchasing a NAS is the decision as to which drives to purchase to put in it. Indeed depending on which NAS model and which drives you buy you c...
There is a middle ground here too. Identify some disk drive families that are supported until proven that they are suspect (e.g.,all the NAS-purposed and enterprise-grade drives). Then consumers would have current and safe choices, and Netgear would still have the ability to test consumer drives, SSDs, the new "cold storage" drives.
CharlesR wrote: I believe Netgear should work in reverse by emphasizing a non compatible list. Which by default would make available which drives do in fact work.
I'd agree that the disk manufacturers are winnowed down, which should help. But there are newer technologies (SSDs and SMR) that could have issues with the NAS - and there's probably sound reasons to test green drives carefully.
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