supposedly, part of the difference between the NAS drives and desktop drives (back when they first started segmenting consumer desktop and consumer NAS drives)

supposedly, part of the difference between the NAS drives and desktop drives (back when they first started segmenting consumer desktop and consumer NAS drives) is that the NAS drives have a much higher inactivity timeout before spinning down. It's supposed to help with longevity since spinning up/down wears out the drive faster and with performance coming back from an idle. I have no idea how much that actually matters or whether that's still true anymore.