What is the difference of NAS HDD and normal HDD? Should I pay

>>58503946
No head parking and other dynamic speed bullshit

You're literally paying more for less. Blame jews

>>58503946
TLER

they are better if you want them to be spinning 24/7
but usually you can let your OS turn them off after 1 minute or whatever you want

>>58503946
Is the server going to be running 24/7?
How many disks are in the array?
What filesystem and RAID setup are you using?
What is the workload you expect?

>>58504043
Yes it will be running 24/7.

I use it for my torrentbox & samba file server. The files are not so important so I don't think setting up RAID...

>>58504097
If you don't have raid, you don't want a NAS hdd.

One feature that NAS / RAID optimized hard drives have is "Time Limited Error Recovery"; if something goes wrong, they fail fast, and let the OS recover from one of the other replicas.

If you use them without RAID, you are paying extra to make it more likely things will fail.