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Icewlf
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I was wondering if there are any issues (other than potentially the price) using an enterprise level HDD in a desktop application?  I'm looking at getting a 12-16TB drive to have as my main storage drive (store movies, books, raw photos, etc). I've been looking at the Seagate EXOS SATA drives, but I've never used a drive larger than 4GB in a computer.  I wasn't sure if there are any draw backs or anything I should be aware of.  I'll be running either Windows 10 or 11 (probably 10) on the machine. 

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2 minutes ago, Icewlf said:

I wasn't sure if there are any draw backs or anything I should be aware of. 

Just the cost, but that's partially offset (in my opinion) by the extra-long warranty period. (That said, I shucked external drives for my home server instead of buying new enterprise drives because of the cost.)

 

As long as it's a SATA drive, there's no reason it won't work. It's going to perform like any other mechanical hard drive.

 

If it's a SAS drive (Serial Attached SCSI), you will need a SAS controller. Your onboard SATA controller doesn't speak SAS.

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Not really. They'll have features you're unlikely to use, but that's about it, most other differences are benefits, such as the longer warranty and lifespan. They can sometimes be a bit louder than desktop drives, as noise isn't really a problem in the datacentre.

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Not at all. Much better than your typical consumer grade drive.

Do make sure your case has proper vibration reduction and good mounting for the drive, though.

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41 minutes ago, Icewlf said:

 but I've never used a drive larger than 4GB in a computer.  I wasn't sure if there are any draw backs or anything I should be aware of.  I'll be running either Windows 10 or 11 (probably 10) on the machine. 

4GB... what are you running... windows 3.11? 

 

as they already said here... a datacenter is noisy... generaly generated by fans and disks. you get disks from 15000rpm and down. if anyone complained about coilwhine here from GPU's and PSU's... it's nothing compared to the constant noise faster enterprice disks makes. 

and for the controller you will need for SAS disks that they all are. is it realy worth it? 

 

If you want larger storage i suggest you look at NAS disks cabinets you can store somewhere noise isn't a problem. and access it over the network. 

you get sata NAS disks up to 20TB ... those are usually set up with some redundancy, like RAID 5.. so you need 3 disks minimum..  or a mirror with 2 disks, raid 1.. basicaly a copy, but not expandable. 

 

and you can buy just 1 and put it in your case...  but if it crashes the data is lost. some bios's even support raids 0 1 5 .. so you can mount more than one disk. alto the noise will be more.. 

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