Question Need a 2TB SATA II 3.5" HDD

[sargan]

I have a Humax PVR and the HDD is starting to fail.
Looking for a replacement 3.5" 2TB HDD.
The typical recommendation is a SeaGate ST2000VM003 Pipeline, but this is now manufacturer discontinued, I can find some stock, but as any stock must be 'old' thought it worth also looking for alternatives.

Need a quiet drive, that can work happily in a hot box, this means a CE or AV drives
Ultimate performance is not critical.

Been advised to stay away from WD as they try to park the head every 8sec (power saving) not good for AV recording.

 

[dreamteam]

there is well known utility for WD drives which you can use to disable the ''head parking'' or extended the default timing from 8s to 300s
but I think now the vast majority of mainstream HDD do park heads...

this thing would be cool for a company with thousands of HDD's to save some on energy but for home it's totally irrelevant.

the WD drives for video recording are the Purple series, just make sure you buy a CMR unit.

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[sargan]

On the Humax for it specifically states not to use WD Purple, they are intended for Surveillance video and not suited to the Humax . The reason given is to that they are best suited to motion-activated surveillance and being in a RAID array, not the heavy load pattern from a PVR.

 

[dreamteam]

then contact Seagate support and ask for a direct replacement to that disk.