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Internal hard drives (HDD)
Internal 3.5" hard drives from 1 to 24 TB for desktops, NAS and surveillance and 2.5" drives for laptops. WD Red, Seagate IronWolf and Toshiba N300 ranges for 24/7 operation. Use an SSD for the system drive.
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Show 24 moreFrequently asked questions
- When does a classic hard drive still make sense?
- Where capacity per crown matters: backups, photo and video archives, NAS and camera recordings. We do not recommend it as a system drive, a system on an SSD boots and works many times faster. A small SSD for the system plus a large HDD for data is still a sensible combination.
- What is the difference between desktop, NAS and surveillance drives?
- Desktop drives are built for ordinary use a few hours a day. NAS drives (e.g. WD Red, Seagate IronWolf) are made for round-the-clock operation and the vibration of several drives side by side. Surveillance drives (WD Purple, Seagate SkyHawk) are optimised for the constant writing of many streams.
- What do CMR and SMR mean?
- It is the recording method. CMR drives write evenly and suit NAS, RAID and frequent rewriting. SMR drives overlap tracks, cost less per terabyte, but slow down a lot during long writes. Where the maker states it, the recording method is in the specifications.