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Using WD RED PLUS or Seagate Exos in pc

Raisened
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I am planning to buy 12/14TB internal HDD for my PC. I am looking at Seagate exos or WD Red plus. Is it good idea to use NAS drives or enterprise drives from WD/Seagate/Toshiba in a PC?  

Toshiba MG series drives are available at goood price on newegg at the moment. 

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17 minutes ago, Raisened said:

I am planning to buy 12/14TB internal HDD for my PC. I am looking at Seagate exos or WD Red plus. Is it good idea to use NAS drives or enterprise drives from WD/Seagate/Toshiba in a PC?  

Toshiba MG series drives are available at goood price on newegg at the moment. 

No reason to use them over standard consumer drives. Buy whatever is cheaper. 

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Why not? If you're not looking for performance (speed), just using it as a file storage. NAS drives usually are in the lower speed class like 5400 for lower heat and ultimately lower wear and tear.

Enterprise drive on the other hand optimized for reliability, using high end materials, extra raid features, manufacture will have extended warranty to compensate its higher price.

 

For desktop, i suggest getting the cheapest drive for storage since HDD are less relevant for performance drive these days, people mostly using SSD for that purpose.

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