Review on West Digital 4TB Surveillance HDD - 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5in - WD Purple40PURZ (Old Version) by Chai Charoen ᠌

Name: West Digital 4TB Surveillance HDD - 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5in - WD Purple40PURZ (Old Version)
Item: West Digital 4TB Surveillance HDD - 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5in - WD Purple40PURZ (Old Version)
Rating: 5

October 21, 2022

A nice option for the money, one of the best deals.

I took it to storage. I didn’t listen to all sorts of nonsense about the type “ed only for storage, sarvilens and skyhaw only for video surveillance, ironwulf for the server and barracuda for the computer”. It's all marketing "hat". Take reviews and CMS records and the number of hours between failures. Otsalnoe gel filling and all sorts of other bells and whistles there is all marketing to take more money from you. Disks work the first day, drove them to the raid stripe. In a year I will write as disks.

Pros

Good reviews, in principle, indicate more or less reliability of this model. The price is more or less good. It seems like a MTBF of 1 million hours, which for this money will be like a series of red plus or seagate exos. Well, the most important plus is the traditional recording and not tiling, which spoils everything when the disc starts to overwrite the adjacent track. When reading and writing do not make noise. Well, how can you hear, of course, when the head moves there, but this is if you put your ear close

Cons

The price is a little expensive but it's because you know what and who. As always, delivers discs in a simple cardboard box with one layer of bubble wrap. Not the most reliable delivery judging by the reviews, but I was lucky.