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Originally Posted by flipper35
For a home business user.
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Enterprise == optimized for endurance. As opposed to drives intended for "sometimes" or "light" usage, like many consumer drives intended for DVR or survielllance system usage. Which tend not only to power-down when not it use, but will have a tendancy to throw their toys out of the pram and suddenly die if you start kicking them with any serious throughput. Yeh, there are brands I simply won't buy with my own money.
These drives will run 24/7/365 - that's what they're built for. Worth noting that many "consumer" drives will actually also do this just fine but without the price premium. HGST's old DeskStar and TravelStar drives were pretty much just fine being used as though they had a label on them that said UltraStar...
That said, some "consumer" drives will call "Uncle" pretty quick. And exhibit all sorts of annoying tendencies; like calling for a timeout, going to sleep or just sulking and refusing to play anymore, ever...
Within enterprise, there are classes for speed. These drives are for NL storage, and are optimized for capacity. As they spin at 7200 RPM, they will not be any faster, in any real usage, than any other 7200 RPM drive. If they were dual-ported, then it may be possible, with the correct hardware, to drive them somewhat harder (have them doing more things). But you cannot utilize that with a single host/HBA - plus these are optimized for capacity, not speed. So there isn't much point providing that facility, and they likely don't have it.
Being all-rust, they will almost certainly, In Real Life, be considerably slower than a hybrid SSD/HDD laptop drive (described as "not for use in RAID", but which nevertheless hold up pretty well in that usage for me for a couple of years before I switched to Samsung EVO SSDs).