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A few years ago NAS-purposed drives came out (WDC Red, Seagate Ironwolf). Just use those instead of a consumer-grade drive. Or of course use an enterprise-grade drive (including WDC Red Pro, Ironwolf Pro, among many others).
Enterprise-grade will give the fastest performance. Reliability is supposed to be better, but good data on that is hard to find.
The NAS-purposed consumer grade are lower performing, although still fast enough to saturate a gigabit network connection. They run cooler than enterprise-grade (using less power).
I understand that it's only really relevant if RAID is done in hardware.
I have seen some folks who say that, but they appear to be pretty dated articles. So I wouldn't assume that is still true. Also there is some additional vibration control in NAS-purposed drives (which is helpful when you have multiple drives in the same chassis).
A few years ago NAS-purposed drives came out (WDC Red, Seagate Ironwolf). Just use those instead of a consumer-grade drive. Or of course use an enterprise-grade drive (including WDC Red Pro, Ironwolf Pro, among many others).
Enterprise-grade will give the fastest performance. Reliability is supposed to be better, but good data on that is hard to find.
The NAS-purposed consumer grade are lower performing, although still fast enough to saturate a gigabit network connection. They run cooler than enterprise-grade (using less power).
I understand that it's only really relevant if RAID is done in hardware.
I have seen some folks who say that, but they appear to be pretty dated articles. So I wouldn't assume that is still true. Also there is some additional vibration control in NAS-purposed drives (which is helpful when you have multiple drives in the same chassis).
