Hard drives are darnedest things to evaluate, since they are rather intolerant devices, and they will usually give you little or no warning before they fail (SMART technology not withstanding). I had a specific purpose for this particular hard drive, and that purpose has included massive transfers of video data files of the streaming variety. It worked like a charm right from the start, and it's still working that way. In my humble opinion, Seagate has come a long way in their design features and quality control. I would buy this drive again for myself, and therefore would recommend it to anyone else. Enjoy.
I need ten more words, so apple, bat, cat, and dog.We are a CCTV distribution company and we have sold thousands of DVR's and NVR's. These are the only hard drives we will put in our units. Out of the thousands we have purchased, we have had less than 5 fail. We have also purchased WD Green's, Blue's, and Black's, as well as WD's AV-GP. All of those models have failed and I would not recommend any other hard drive other than the SV35 for surveillance. DVR's really put a toll on hard drives with the constant reading and writing, especially if you are recording on motion detection. Dont skimp out on a cheap drive.Installed them on a QNAP NAS 569. One failed in January/13 the other one In March/2013. Not recommended, at least for this application.I purchased these to replace the failing 1TB drives in a video surveillance system. These were not listed on the "approved" drive list from the vendor, but they installed and functioned flawlessly.
The system has been running with these installed now for a little more than a month and have had no issues. The system writes over the drives as soon as they all fill up, but to date the system has not filled all of the drives (the old capacity was 9TB, now it is 27TB).
The price for these drives on sale was actually cheaper that the replacement 1TB drives.
If anything changes I will update the review.
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