Customer Ratings & Reviews

Nice Size Drive, Nice Value, Working Great In Camera DVR

I installed these hard drives in my DRV's and they have given me 3 months of recording capability.

This is great for any system and provides more than enough space for hours of recorded data!

I have two of these in a WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra operating primarily as an NVR in RAID 1 (plus partition for local network incremental backups) and it works great. Low heat, decent speed, it just works. Continuous writing from 2 cameras plus motion detection writing from 6 cameras plus occasional playback reading from up to three devices. Running for about 2 months now, no issues. I haven't recorded any R/W speeds or temperatures, so I can't speak to performance specifics, but this drive does what it is supposed to do without any need for user monitoring or intervention, which is exactly what I needed.

This is a very efficient hard drive for dvr systems. I have not yet had a problem with Western Digital.

For the price, this is worth every penny. You can simply have more space to upgrade your computer.

Purchased this hdd to upgrade my tivo. It did the trick nicely and gave me a lot of storage.

Used this for video surveillance system with Q-See. Works well, no problems so far.

bought this drive to be placed in our surveillance system. so far so good. set it to record at the highest quality with overwrite. not too knowledgeable about it but it gets the job done. these models "purple" are built specifically for this use.

Swapped out a tired drive in my Speco surveillance system. Worked great and no concerns.

Does great! really stores that video! Couldn't ask for a better hard drive

It's a hard drive... Hopefully it doesn't fail on me anytime soon?

I like it. Very durable and perfect one. I love WD.

I purchased this drive in June 2017 - it failed 3 years later exactly. I did not use it much. It was my second drive that I used for data storage for my videos and pictures and it was off most of the time my PC was on because I rarely accessed the data. I was shocked, when my PC notified me that the drive was going bad. Tested it with WD utilities and it showed bad sectors and was unreadable in some spots. I am seriously surprised by this. I was hoping that the drive would last longer. I was lucky to not lose much of my data. I no longer trust the 24/7 rating and the recommendation for surveillance recording. I do not believe that to be true.