<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; "><br></div> <br> <div class="gmail_signature" ></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On December 14, 2020 at 23:13:24, Alex Carver via Ale (<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>On 2020-12-13 05:50, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
<br>> What's the difference between a regular drive and a NAS drive? The use
<br>> case is a backup drive in a single disk Rosewill enclosure, for MacOS.
<br>>
<br>NAS drives are certified for continuous power-on and operation. Regular
<br>drives are only rated for intermittent power-on with the expectation
<br>that the host computer will be shut off daily.
<br><br></div></div></span></blockquote><br><div><span style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 14px;">Yeah, I’d just go with whatever drive meets the size requirements.TimeMachine is going to run on a set interval (hourly?) and other tools like CarbonCopyCloner will run on whatever schedule you determine. So there’s no need for a drive rated to run for hundreds of thousands of continuous hours. You just need something that will accept data on an interval and then go back to sleep.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 14px;">(</span><font face="-apple-system"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Sorry for the duped email. Forgot to change my From address.)</span></font></div></body></html>