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

The hard disk stopped working 25 days after installing it. The technician said that it seems the device had some factory problems. I guess this kind of things don't happens all the time and specially with this recognized brand.

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

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...

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

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.

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.

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Purchased this for a church security camera system which had a Toshiba HDD crash for no known reason. Searched for a larger HDD with characteristics I needed, like write priority and capability to take the use at high volume times. This was the one. So far it has worked as well as we had hoped.