Is this compatible with home surveillance systems using 1tb hard drives my system doesn't give any specs. null

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DiscriminatingConsumer · Accepted Answer

As long as the surveillance system uses an SATA interface hard drive, then this should work just fine. Just be carefully choosing drives larger than 2 TB as the operating system used in your machine might not be able to access the entire capacity of the drive. I would check with the system manufacturer to be sure of any size limitations before I purchased a new drive.

Answered by DiscriminatingConsumer 9 years ago

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Techie2016 · Answer

This drive is a blue label ... good for desktops .. western digital makes drives for surveillance they are labelled purple. And made for those systems. They have better drives for what you need. Blue label drives are minimum speed for desktops. It may work for your setup but performance won't be good. Just ask a best buy salesperson for the purple drives.

Answered by Techie2016 9 years ago

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Dudeguy · Answer

Does your system have any sata ports? If so, then yes.

Effector2 · Answer

No. you will need a WD purple for surveillance. Check this website: https://www.wdc.com/products/business-internal-storage/wd-purple-nv.html

BobDobbs · Answer

You need a standard SATA connection. This drive is meant to be installed in a computer or enclosure of some kind. If your system requires USB 3, FireWire, or the like, you should look at external drives.

Answered by BobDobbs 9 years ago

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BobDobbs · Answer

As long as your system has a standard SATA connection for drives, then yes. This is an internal drive, meant to be mounted in some sort of computer or enclosure. If you need USB 3 or FireWire, you should look elsewhere.

Answered by BobDobbs 9 years ago

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RCarbone65 · Answer

As long as your system supports SATA, it should be fine. You'll have to clone your current drive if you don't have access to the firmware for you system to make it compatible.

KenC · Answer

You could use it, though I'd suggest the BLACK drives at a minimum.
That being said the Western Digital Purple drives are specifically intended for this purpose and are strongly recommended.

JerryUSA · Answer

It should just plug in. As long as the connections are SATA

Tmbrguy · Answer

SSD drives have latency problems, I would probably go cheap and replace often

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