I purchased a couple of these to put in a Drobo NAS box. Plan to order a few more very soon. Very well made and reliable hard drives perfect for using in a NAS box. While I'd love to invest in SSD's eventually, in the meantime, these are the next best thing to use if you want a good combination of...

While the new Purple series from Western Digital are individually tailored for AV / Surveillance applications, they are also a partly suitable replacement for desktop HDDs in a normal PC or HTPC / recorders.

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

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.

As always, I am always safe when I buy WD. Transfered 1.4TB on this drive, works perfectly! Will see later, but I already tested 3-4 drive like this one, all good!

-Fast; -High capacity; -Low price

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Great disk and easily handles 16 camera streams.

I would buy another. I would recommend one. I'm not paid anything in any form to give this review. The internet is full of fake reviews from paid writers that probably never even used the product. They also have reviews to slam products of competitors. I know, it's slimy.

Runs cooler in my security system than my old WD drive; Installed, formatted right away, went right back to recording; I will not be able to give an honest review on storage quality for a couple of months; I will return; Same price as my old WD 250gb drive.

None yet; Will return to do a full review in a couple of months

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.

I bought this hard drive with a Vantec NST-300SU-BK enclosure ( ) to build an expander for my Shaw Gateway PVR (which only has an eSATA interface), because the old one started freezing and dropping the link regularly and Shaw no longer supports them.

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This Hard drive has been fitted to a surveillance system for 7 months and has packed up. I only use 4 cameras on the system thought it would last longer than 7 months . Dissapointed