Is it a good idea to use a hard drive that was made for use in NAS as a desktop system drive?
I am particularly concerned about error recovery.
The following post claims that NAS drives do not try as hard to fix disk errors, compared to normal desktop drives.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/78ek5h/comment/doxiq91/
BarraCuda drives are engineered for use in a desktop environment,
whereas NAS drives like the IronWolf are designed for use in NAS
enclosures. IronWolf drives are engineered to excel in situations
where they work in a NAS as RAID teams, meaning they don’t as
aggressively try to fix reallocated/bad sectors because they can just
“move on” and leave something for another drive in the array, meaning
when used as a single drive in a desktop, it may potentially result in
these errors stacking up quicker than a standard desktop grade drive
would.
Is there any truth to this?
I would like to use a Seagate IronWolf drive as a desktop drive, without RAID.
