can you explain the benefits of having a hard drive vs not having one? Thanks
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With a hard drive, you can save the record video to playback or backup, without a hard drive, it only can real-time monitoring, no video can be save, thanks.
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I prefer the external drive because you can backup different computers and use like pen drive, plus you can stored the external drive in different place to the computer.
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to me it seems better and easier for me to have the disk rather than try to download, when I try to download one I usually have trouble. if I have the disk I can always go back to it.
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It depends on what you want to do with it. Memory, certainly. I've been booting mine off a USB stick, with no hard drive. A monitor and keyboard is useful, of course, unless you're planning on making it a headless server. If you want to use CDs or DVDs, then a USB drive would be a useful addition. Strictly speaking, memory is the only thing that is actually *required*.
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There is a model that comes with a hard drive, but we chose to buy the model without one. We purchase a larger hard drive separately from Amazon. System works great!
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Yes, there is no difference at all in that respect. I have replaced 2 hard drives recently, one in a desktop, one in an old Dell XPS laptop.
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I haven't noticed a difference for accessing files from the NAS and files stored on hard drives mounted on my PC. There probably is a difference but both are fast enough to not be a bother. When I move large numbers of jpg files it does take significant time but I usually set up that task and then go to bed.
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Thanks for your interest in our product.Without a HDD, the DVR would only be capable of live viewing and live remote internet viewing; you would not be able to record footage or play back footage.RegardsMolly
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I don't own one of those. but the one I do own has a faster Hard drive than 10k
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Not exactly sure what you mean by this question..like useful life of the hard drive?
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You need to format the drive before use. So if you have some files on it, you will lose that. Beware!!!!!
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Hi,The hard disk drive is independent with the OS. It depends on the connection port and the standard of hardware of the computer. The best way for you is to check the old hard disk drive on your computer and buy a new one with the same specifications.
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Just a note..from personal experience. Using a smaller,high performance drive for your System or Boot drive gives you 2 advantages. High performance, lower capacity drives are generally less expensive. 2. In the event of drive failure you don't lose everything. In the event you have to reload your OS it will be on a dedicated,high performance drive and much easier to format and reinstall. SSD is an excellent option here... extremely fast boot time, excellent performance.
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You have to provide the hdds for a diskless NAS, whereas a non-diskless NAS already has the hdds included. Consequently, a diskless NAS will typically be cheaper, but a non-diskless NAS will be simpler to purchase and set up, and my potentially be cheaper after factoring in the price of the hard drives. You also need to be somewhat selective about which hdds to add to a diskless NAS, and if you don't know much about hard drives and RAID, you're probably best off not getting a diskless NAS.
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No, it doesn't. Hard drives bought separately from a computer don't generally have anything installed on them.
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I agree with what was said already, but also want to point out that you should separate data drives from the OS drive. This is a good drive to put lots of data on, an SSD that is much smaller is ideal to put most programs and the operatingsystem on. SSD's are lightening fast and not very expensive, while this drive is fast for rotating storage, but better to minimize accesses on larger drives so they last longer, and take advantage of their massive storage capability -- evenwith an NAS setup. IMHO.
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It's exactly like a portable hard drive. The difference is,it's solid state and has no moving parts.