[SOLVED] Surveillance HDD's?

[wogfor]

I work for a company that sells goods for security systems which includes cameras and DVR's (digital video recorders) They recently decided to scrap some of these DVR's and hard drives as old unsellable stock, so I ended up keeping a small handful of these drives which were simply being tossed out. These drives are mostly Western Digital Purples and one Seagate SV ranging from 1 to 4TB - all rated as "surveillance" grade and also a Western Digital 2TB in a "Gold" grade. I don't totally understand what makes these drives different from your "mainstream" grade drives and if there is any reason I could not use them as secondary drives in one of my systems or as back-ups. I plugged one of 2TB WD units into an external docking port and set it up as a back up for my main drive on my gaming system, which is a 1TB SSD. Seems to work as any other drive would. Also the "Gold" drive would be rated for data centers I believe.

 

[CountMike]

I work for a company that sells goods for security systems which includes cameras and DVR's (digital video recorders) They recently decided to scrap some of these DVR's and hard drives as old unsellable stock, so I ended up keeping a small handful of these drives which were simply being tossed out. These drives are mostly Western Digital Purples and one Seagate SV ranging from 1 to 4TB - all rated as "surveillance" grade and also a Western Digital 2TB in a "Gold" grade. I don't totally understand what makes these drives different from your "mainstream" grade drives and if there is any reason I could not use them as secondary drives in one of my systems or as back-ups. I plugged one of 2TB WD units into an external docking port and set it up as a back up for my main drive on my gaming system, which is a 1TB SSD. Seems to work as any other drive would. Also the "Gold" drive would be rated for data centers I believe.

Durability at constant writes mostly, speed is not foremost with them but usable for storage and backup PCs.

 

[memydidydo]

These will not be the fastest obviously but will be good to store stuff on.

Are you planning on keeping them all or to sell them on?

 

[fzabkar]

These drives incorporate the ATA Streaming command set in addition to standard read/write commands. This allows them to drop frames when encountering problematic sectors. I'm using such a drive in my system with no problems.

 

[punkncat]

WD purples are legendary good at writing and overwriting info. Super good drives that you should be glad to have. No issue using for standard (slow access) storage.