Choosing the Best Hard Drives for your NAS When choosing a NAS server for your home or business, selecting the right hard drive is essential. Just like every tool in a toolbox has its role, NAS-specific drives are engineered to meet the particular needs of network storage environments. Using the wrong type of drive in […]
List of WD CMR and SMR hard drives (HDD) Find if your drive is SMR by HDD model number If you know an SMR type of drive, share it with others in a table below! PMR, also known as conventional magnetic recording (CMR), works by aligning the poles of the magnetic […]
Choosing the Best Hard Drives for your NAS If you’re considering a NAS server for your home or business, selecting the appropriate hard drive is crucial. Just as each utensil in a cutlery set serves a unique purpose, NAS drives are designed for specific scenarios. Using unsuitable drive media in your NAS can significantly affect […]
Choosing the Best Hard Drives for your NAS If you’re considering a NAS server for your home or business, selecting the appropriate hard drive is crucial. Just as each utensil in a cutlery set serves a unique purpose, NAS drives are designed for specific scenarios. Using unsuitable drive media in your NAS can significantly affect […]
Choosing the Best Hard Drives for your NAS If you’re considering a NAS server for your home or business, selecting the appropriate hard drive is crucial. Just as each utensil in a cutlery set serves a unique purpose, NAS drives are designed for specific scenarios. Using unsuitable drive media in your NAS can significantly affect […]
Choosing the Best Hard Drive for Price per Terabyte or Gigabyte One question that storage users who are more concerned about the longevity and future-proofing of their storage ask us is: “HDD Price per TB (best cost Hard Drives). Is it better to get bigger size drives or smaller drives but more of them to […]
WD Red 2TB, 4TB and 6TB NAS Hard Drives Use SMR / DM-SMR IMPORTANT – This Article has been updated on 23/04/2020 with Information Provided by an official statement and hardware breakdown from Western Digital, from their official blog. This post has been updated accordingly with these new details. WD Statement: “The past week has […]