Buy a NAS grade HDD. WD Purple is the most affordable. You’ll get 4tb for 7.5k. Much better, durability wise.
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Isn’t Purple a surveillance drive ? I have always wondered why do these get recommended for NAS unless of course, the NAS is used to store surveillance data.
It’s just branding. There’s practically no difference for a regular user. Surveillance data is also zeroes and ones, like any other data.
I fail to see any problem. Apart from the one guy who said he has a problem (and most likely due to a faulty drive), most others just point it that it’s not “supposed” to be used this way.
I read hundreds of posts before buying one for myself. Majority just say that chances of data corruption is higher and it’s only meant for surveillance systems. I failed to find any actual reports of data corruption or issues from actual users. Which makes sense, because a drive which has frequent data corruption issue, will not be used by anyone.
I have been using it for more than a year now on my Synology (no Surveillance, just regular data storage) and am yet to face any issue. It’s just plain voodoo marketing by manufacturers. It’s a perfectly fine hard drive to use for normal people.
The Disk drives maybe the same internally but the firmware may be optimized for the various different scenarios the drives may be used in .
Thus same drives internally but different firmware for storage and surveillance drives .
Correct but as per some experienced users comments on reddit, those optimized firmware “unique features” only come into effect when using under the hdd under those “unique conditions”. Kind of like how a 35w charger will charge a compatible quick charge phone at fast speed but charge an incompatible/power locked charging(like samsung lower end models) at usual 10w.
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Yes. From what the WD Staff mentioned, random read/write will not be as fast as a normal desktop drive and it will not go into power saving mode if not in use. Only the second may matter for NAS.
How reliable are these drives? Their 2 TB drives are very cheap compared to others. Onlyssd doesn’t have those. In amazon its being sold with small premium still cheaper.
There were few negative comments for Drive failed or DOA. What happened after that no one reported.
I have to choose between 4 TB Inrnal or 2 TB SSD
Buy 2TB SP from amazon, just a bit costlier than EVM.
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It might actually be better suited to NAS than normal drives. Surveillance drives usually have some special AT commands for streaming/contiguous read/writes, but if you’re not using them, it will act as a normal drive. That being said, these drives might last longer than normal drives because, like a NAS, they’re supposed/made to run 24×7. I can’t really recommend them for normal PC use, but they should work fine for that too…
Though I’m not sure if they’re rated for vibration, like when having multiple drives running close by? They should be, but I’ve not looked it up.
It is nothing like that. Basically, it just shows that EVM got these generic Chinese ssd at such low cost that even after giving 5 years warranty with a failure rate of 10-20%(just my assumption but their reliability will be certainly lower than any established brand for sure especially when going by online & real world comments about another similar brand Consistent) it will still make profit. Better spend 1k more & get 2TB SP from amazon after some card discount/offer.
Multiple drives vibration is only an issue when running almost dozen or more drives in a server rack or prebuilt NAS like synology with 4 or more bays, typical home user will never face such an issue.
PrimeABGB was good to honour warranty.. latest warranty experience by any one here for any product from PrimeAbGb?
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What is this brand? Does anyone have any experience?
This is typical Indian company importing cheap generic oem stuff from China relabeled with their own brand. However I would put EVM a bit above Consistent & ant esports, two other similar Indian ssd brands.
How is it working, has it been reliable and dependable since you bought it… Please do tell me, I’m looking for one
Buy crucial BX500 ssd.
What’s the best casing to use this as an external hard drive with my computer ?