Hello,
Recently my 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD crapped out on me when using for my parents' CCTV surveillance system I installed for them. The way the DVR works is every 30 days or when the HDD is full, it completely formats it to allow a new set of recording to be saved to it. However, it kind of seems bad for hard drives that are not specifically optimized for that type of wear, causing it to eventually corrupt. For some reason, it can no longer save recordings to the HDD let alone playback any recordings. My parents and I are now on a search for a new HDD to replace the current one but something that's "budget" and not expensive.
I was reading about the WD Purple Surveillance HDD 1TB version was the "sweet spot" of the Purple series and anything higher in storage space had a bad run. I also heard the HDD's specifically optimized for surveillance use can handle the wear such as the reading/writing more than a standard every day HDD.
I'm not sure how much they're willing to spend but what do you recommend?
Thanks!
Recently my 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD crapped out on me when using for my parents' CCTV surveillance system I installed for them. The way the DVR works is every 30 days or when the HDD is full, it completely formats it to allow a new set of recording to be saved to it. However, it kind of seems bad for hard drives that are not specifically optimized for that type of wear, causing it to eventually corrupt. For some reason, it can no longer save recordings to the HDD let alone playback any recordings. My parents and I are now on a search for a new HDD to replace the current one but something that's "budget" and not expensive.
I was reading about the WD Purple Surveillance HDD 1TB version was the "sweet spot" of the Purple series and anything higher in storage space had a bad run. I also heard the HDD's specifically optimized for surveillance use can handle the wear such as the reading/writing more than a standard every day HDD.
I'm not sure how much they're willing to spend but what do you recommend?
Thanks!