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I chose this over the Seagate Surveillance HDD, because I have a good experience with WD products in general. So far, I have been using this HDD for a few months now and this product works very well in our 8 Channel DVR. Its set to record 24/7, so it can handle being recorded continuously.

We have always had VERY good experiences with these "Purple" hard drives and up to this point have never had a bad one or a failure out of box! We tried others with regards to CCTV and wasn't the case. Nothing but good things to say about the Purple Hard Drives... won't use anything else.

OOdles of space! quiet and fast. It delivers. Only one caveat. No bundled software like disk utility. No SATA cable. At the price, little conveniences would have been nice and then I would have rated this 5*. I have just installed the drive so my evaluation is very young.

The move into the 4K resolution over recent months means we're seeing the surveillance industry evolve. Higher resolutions, more cameras and 24/7 recordings mean that the demand for storage is on the way up.

Low operating temperature; Low power consumption; Low operating noise; Three-year warranty

Random Access Time high and low all-round performance (both irrelavant for this sector