Between NAS branded vs Surveillance hdds, which is better for video encoding 24/7? I would think both are reliable for 24/7 use, I just don’t know which is best for my needs. 24/7 handbrake use.
purely based on opinion (perhaps not purely, but mostly) - the red would be your goto. the surveillance disks are targeting low bitrate writing, meanwhile a red has a more normal approach to serve read and writes. Perhaps someone has an even better insight here :).
For me, I use handbrake and the way it works is by simultaneously reading from a source file, encoding said file in the ram, and saving to a different format on the same drive. So yes for my purposes writing, but also reading while writing.
fact-sheet for the purple states that it’s firmware is ‘special’, would be suprised otherwise. And the rest of the data rings good for my opinion, check the reliability portions.
And here is the sheet for the red;
Will lurk and hope that anyone has hands on experience of the purple.
In a jbod using zfs that maxes out the band width of your interface I have a tough time justifying the price of NAS drives. To me this seems like a cash grab.