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This is a good little high quality hard drive for surveillance systems, as the WD Purple line is designed for the high I\O loads encountered in these systems. I used this drive in my custom server chassis Windows based video surveillance machine, and it had no issue with the several lower definition cameras I recorded to it. Since it is only 1TB and I wanted high retention, I am using this drive for only lower definition cameras, but I tested it briefly with several HD streams as well and it performed flawlessly. The drive feels like it’s well built, and it operates cool and quietly. When benchmarking the speed of the drive, I obtained the following results: Average Read Rate: 121.1MB/s (1000 samples) Average Write Rate:: 117.6MB/s (1000 samples) Average Access Time: 19.94ms (1000 samples)

Hard drive works as advertised. It is doing hard drive stuff. Happy customer! :)

This is such a quiet drive 5 cameras record 24/7 and it doesn't bat an eye

+ small footprint for a larger capacity drive. fits in most of my drive cases + seems fast, although I have not tested the actual read/write speed + nice case design

-Fast transfer speeds of <200MB/sec -Quiet, cant be heard outside case, no seek noises at all -Has 2000+ hours on it already and no issues or problems so far

Plenty of room, fairly fast speedsand great price on sale.

High durability Runs cool in a harsh duty-cycle Low noise

It works really well, very reliable on a Ubiquiti UNVR system

Drive works perfectly without unusual noises or any other faults. Did a full drive check and no bad sectors. Good cost per TB when on sale. Long warranty and expected lifespan.

Good SSD cooler with one caveat. Comes with several heat pads of different thickness and even includes a mini screwdriver. Installing a single-sided SSD will have no issues whatsoever.

Hey, it is my upgrade from 4TB. Data keeps growing. i need more backups, the 3TB are beginning to fail. Mutiple backups are better than one or none.

Got it running on my synology for plex media!! Running great!! Gets a bit loud but I'm use to it.

Fast Shipping! Works as expected.

WD drives have been very good! I needed a 3TB drive to replace one that failed in my server! This one was on sale and I have had very good success with WD drives!

perfect for NAS. I don't really need the AI function in the drives they sit in a UNIFI protect set up. I have the 24TB one in my home protect set up and initially it was loud, but it has become more quite since it finished it originally set up. I have 8 of the 8TB drives with no issues. 2 are cold spares. when they go in I'll order 2 more. I take the drives that are out of warranty and typically put them in our 3rd tier backup NAS systems and they seem to live forever. Technically out of "service life" but that doesn't mean I take them offline, I stick them into a lower use environment to live out their days storing old accounting stuff. Nothing as exciting as VIDEO

Great buy on sale. Works fine on USB 3.0 and USB 2.0! I have found that Western Digital has the fastest and most reliable USB 3.0 interface of all of the external drive manufacturers, with the sometimes cheaper Seagate external drives having the slowest of data transfer rates. In fact, they are about half the write speeds of the Western Digital drives. The brand new square plastic cases of the Western Digital USB 3.0 drives are the fastest yet in write speeds! Great drives!

Installed in a As1104T NAS. Installation was simple and the drive has performed well. Its quiet in Operations and, so far, has had no problems in use across the network. Newegg has been a recent "go to" for my network storage needs.