[kwlug-disc] Hard Disk Drive for NVR

[Ron Singh]

Hey there Khalid, hope the summer's been treating you(and the rest of the
KWLUG community) well.

We've been very happy with the WD RED PRO series, been using them early
2020 and nary a failure.
Mind you, my IT joint has only deployed about 280-ish pcs since that time,
not a huge population to go by.

Previously, we used HGST-labelled 2TB and 4TB units, 5200rpm ones and
7200rpm ones -- these are now long disco'd.
Very good success with them, ZERO failures on the slower 5200rpm units, the
7200rpm, about 0.25% on the 2TB and 0.5% on the 4TB.
In all situations, the drives are are well-ventilated chassis in
well-ventilated rooms.

We used the WD RED PRO mostly in QNAP NAS boxes to store security cam
recordings/file serving and the occasional(inevitable) torrenting by an
errant staffer at any given client.
We also have them set up in Raid50 and Raid6 arrays in RHEL(and Win) boxes,
using Broadcom/LSI/3Ware SAS/SATA HBAs with great success., zero failures.
We only have experience with the 4TB and 8TB, no idea on how the bigger
ones fare in terms of reliability.

They are also dirt cheap, see -
https://www.amazon.ca/WESTERN-DIGITAL-Drive-256MB-WD4003FFBX/dp/B07B1WK3N5
CC has it too, but showing only 1 in stock:
https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=15_4232&item_id=121629
*** this single unit might be "phantom" stock, not actually there, likely
best to just grab it from the Evil Empire, Amazon.

Hope this helps some.

Ron S.



On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 12:51 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> I am looking into upgrading my NVR to a larger disk.
> The WD Purple series seems to fit the bill.
> The 4TB version is not shingled (you can tell by the modest 64MB cache).
>
> Here it is at Canada Computers
>
>
> https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=15_4232&item_id=108368
>
> And at Amazon
>
>
> https://www.amazon.ca/Western-Digital-Purple-Surveillance-Drive/dp/B071KVB4F8/
>
> Some of the reviews on Amazon are terrible though regarding reliability.
>
> Anyone using the WD Purple series, or other surveillance type hard disks
> on a video recorder or a NAS?
>
> Please share your experiences ...
>
> --
> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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