Using Desktop Drives vs NAS Drives vs Enterprise Drives In A RAID Server
Desktop drives are significantly less expensive than NAS Drives or Enterprise. Can they be used when building a budget RAID array?
They can, however it’s important to understand how desktop drives will increase required maintenance, downtime, expense, and risk of data loss. The biggest difference between desktop drives vs NAS drives or Enterprise drives is in how they communicate with the RAID controller during write operations.