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Matt_adams66

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Looking to us my PC as a DVR. What hard drive would work the best. Looking for around 2-3 tb. Would the new WD Purple be better for video storage or is there something else out there that would work better?
 
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DVR's dont need much in the way of hdd performance if its strickly a storage drive: Green, red, black. Blue would be fine also but they dont make them above 1TB.

If this is to be a boot/OS drive also then avoid the green imo.

Seagate barracudas or Nas drives also work well as storage or boot drives.

If you want a 3tb or larger drive as your boot drive, make sure your motherbd is efi or uefi.
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Any normal storage harddrive will work fine unless you're planning on streaming to a bunch of TVs at once or recording 12 channels at once. there is no reason to use anything but a normal green desktop drive otherwise. DVR usage is not a very intensive application. just a lot of slow sequential reads and writes.
 
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DVR's dont need much in the way of hdd performance if its strickly a storage drive: Green, red, black. Blue would be fine also but they dont make them above 1TB.

If this is to be a boot/OS drive also then avoid the green imo.

Seagate barracudas or Nas drives also work well as storage or boot drives.

If you want a 3tb or larger drive as your boot drive, make sure your motherbd is efi or uefi.
 
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