It's just the cheapest type of drive there is. The use case is in large scale RAIDs where one disk failing isn't a big issue. They tend to have decent warranty but under heavy load they're not expected to last multiple years. Personally I use drives like this but I make sure to have them in a RAID and with backup, anything else would be foolish. Do also note that expensive NAS drives aren't guaranteed to last either so a RAID is always recommended.
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Ok cool, I plan on using them in RAID Z1
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters | More Letters |
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HA | Home Assistant automation software |
~ | High Availability |
NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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