I was on the cheap and last year bought two 4 TB Seagate STBV4000100 external drives to use in a Mediasonic HUR3-su3s3 dual drive RAID enclosure. I note I bought them last year because I didn't start using one until recently (just as its intended external drive use for the time being) and after the first power down it started clicking. I'm hoping it's just a bad power supply because the warranty expired a while ago.
Inside the enclosure is a SATAIII 5,900rpm ST4000DM000 drive (which was more expensive as a bare drive than as an external unit). I'm wondering if it's OK to use them as NAS because after the clicking I'd like to get some redundancy in place.
What's the big difference between the much more expensive NAS drives and the slow 'green' 5,900 rpm drives?
Inside the enclosure is a SATAIII 5,900rpm ST4000DM000 drive (which was more expensive as a bare drive than as an external unit). I'm wondering if it's OK to use them as NAS because after the clicking I'd like to get some redundancy in place.
What's the big difference between the much more expensive NAS drives and the slow 'green' 5,900 rpm drives?