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

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