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.

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