Lee James
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Please could someone advise me?
For a while now I've been desperately low on hard drive space and have been patiently waiting for 8tb drives to get cheap enough.
I've now found a drive on Amazon which is just about within my budget (Seagate IronWolf ST8000VN0022 for £226.34) - however it's a "NAS" drive. I really have no idea what "NAS" means, and couldn't understand the Wikipedia article on it. (I'm pretty dumb when it comes to hard drives.)
So… Can I just stick this drive in my PC and use it as a normal hard drive? Is it a good choice? Will it be slower than the drives I'm used to? (My 2 main data drives at the moment are the Seagate ST4000DM000 and Seagate ST32000542AS - and then of course I use an SSD for my operating system drive.)
I do a lot of video and sound editing, so it needs to be able to accommodate that, also quietness is really important - my new PC was specifically built with silence in mind, after my old machine which sounded like a lawnmower under my desk!
For a while now I've been desperately low on hard drive space and have been patiently waiting for 8tb drives to get cheap enough.
I've now found a drive on Amazon which is just about within my budget (Seagate IronWolf ST8000VN0022 for £226.34) - however it's a "NAS" drive. I really have no idea what "NAS" means, and couldn't understand the Wikipedia article on it. (I'm pretty dumb when it comes to hard drives.)
So… Can I just stick this drive in my PC and use it as a normal hard drive? Is it a good choice? Will it be slower than the drives I'm used to? (My 2 main data drives at the moment are the Seagate ST4000DM000 and Seagate ST32000542AS - and then of course I use an SSD for my operating system drive.)
I do a lot of video and sound editing, so it needs to be able to accommodate that, also quietness is really important - my new PC was specifically built with silence in mind, after my old machine which sounded like a lawnmower under my desk!