Before then, people just used regular hard drives in their NAS setups. (howtogeek.com)
Unlike regular hard drives, solid state drives (SSDs) have no moving parts. (lawyer-monthly.com)
While you can technically use regular hard drives in a NAS setup if you really want to, you won't get the same level of reliability and performance that you would when using hard drives specifically made for a NAS. (howtogeek.com)