NAS or Desktop Performance Drive

[Tokeegee]

So I'm looking into buying a new hard drive to install my steam games to, and I've decided to get a Toshiba 4TB drive.

This one specifically: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822149697?Item=N82E16822149697

It is a NAS drive, however there seems to be a desktop 'performance" counterpart.

Which would be this one; https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822149627?Item=N82E16822149627&Tpk=N82E16822149627

 

From what I can tell the NAS drive is just the same drive, but with a three year warranty, instead of the two year that comes with the "performance" one.

 

Would there be any advantage to buying the desktop performance one, or should I just go with the NAS one for the longer warranty?

[flibberdipper]

They're the same price so you may as well just get the NAS drive to get the extra warranty.

[APasz]

Generally speaking NAS drives have better endurance tolerances compared to regular consumer drives.

In essence they're higher binned parts.

[Tokeegee]

4 minutes ago, APasz said:

Generally speaking NAS drives have better endurance tolerances compared to regular consumer drives.

In essence they're higher binned parts.

Awesome, I'll pick up the NAS one then.