Drives For NAS

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I have been considering buying a small NAS. It will be used for backuip only and the intent is to have just one drive in it, to save money, because I don't need a high level of safety here.
What I am not sure about, though, is uising a NAS with just one drive, should I use a standard PC drive or one of the special NAS drives? I think the answer here is that I should use a standard drive but I am not sure. I mean ultimately it's not very important since if the drive develops a problem I will just bin it lol buit I was just interested in knowing.
 
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Personally I would use one of the NAS drives.

I use the WD reds in my nas drives and they have worked great and are less noisy etc than desktop drives.

You will also generally get a longer warranty with the NAS drives so worth the extra for me!!
 
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