Use NAS HDD as Regular HDD

[uniquemafia]

Hi,
Can I use this as a regular desktop HDD? Thank you

http://www.flipkart.com/hgst-nas-3-tb-desktop-internal-hard-drive-deskstar-drive/p/itmdyz7xmukdfgcq?pid=IHDDYZ7X4G7XNE3Z&al=hh8ywRIjKo%2FaZMRZG81xx8ldugMWZuE7FGidp7IrMvxZE7OZBmRYwK51sFhJt%2F0k3Pqgqy%2FVGRw%3D&ref=L%3A-5253448517242239978&srno=p_4&otracker=from-search

 

[Solandri]

Yes you can use it as a regular desktop drive. A "NAS" drive is just designed to be left on 24/7 year-round. So it's built a little more robustly than a desktop drive. In other words, it's an enterprise drive, while a regular desktop drive is a consumer drive.

The WD "Red" drives also include TLER. (Actually, it's more accurate to say all the WD non-Red drives lack TLER. The drives of all other manufacturers include it, and it's only WD which artificially limits that feature.) That just means a read error will time out after a few seconds (I think it's 8 sec?), instead of Windows trying over and over for about a minute before telling you there was a read error. The latter behavior can cause RAID arrays to drop a drive when the only problem is the one sector containing that file.

 

[ingtar33]

Yes you can use it as a regular desktop drive. A "NAS" drive is just designed to be left on 24/7 year-round. So it's built a little more robustly than a desktop drive. In other words, it's an enterprise drive, while a regular desktop drive is a consumer drive.

The WD "Red" drives also include TLER. (Actually, it's more accurate to say all the WD non-Red drives lack TLER. The drives of all other manufacturers include it, and it's only WD which artificially limits that feature.) That just means a read error will time out after a few seconds (I think it's 8 sec?), instead of Windows trying over and over for about a minute before telling you there was a read error. The latter behavior can cause RAID arrays to drop a drive when the only problem is the one sector containing that file.

this is completely correct.

just understand enterprise drives may be more robust or durable, but they also are LOUD. so expect it to be louder then a normal drive. it's the tradeoff to expect from one.

 

[uniquemafia]

Thanks for the reply guys. I don't really care about noise, so I will be fine I guess. Thanks once again