Is anyone using normal pc hdd with asustor NAS. Will it work fine?

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Is anyone using normal pc hdd with asustor NAS. Will it work fine?

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Is anyone using normal pc hdd with asustor NAS. Will it work fine? I will be using it only for back ups and few hours of streaming?
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From what I heard, typically enterprise grade drives are designed to withstand vibrations (many HDDs stacked together). It should still be OK to use desktop drives in NAS but I would go for ones that provides longer warranty, hence NAS drives.

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AS5304T - 16GB DDR4 - ADM-OS modded on 2GB RAM
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- 4x10TB Toshiba RAID10 Ext4-Journal=Off
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- 4x2TB Seagate modded RAID0 Btrfs-Compression
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Re: Is anyone using normal pc hdd with asustor NAS. Will it work fine?

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I used old WD Blacks for a couple of years without issue, which were already another couple of years old at the time of installation. I only replaced them recently with SSDs due to the (completely normal) noise of the drives being an issue as a result of moving the NAS to the living room.
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Re: Is anyone using normal pc hdd with asustor NAS. Will it work fine?

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I used desktop hdd around 6 years without issue.
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