Pretty sure my hdd has failed that's in my surveillance dvr. Pic below. My question is do I need that exact brand/model or will any 2TB HDD suffice?

Dvr is a Lorex if that makes any difference.

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Posted by TTB

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Posted on 12/10/18 at 2:21 am to Bawcephus

Any 2TB will work. Size really doesn’t matter so you can go bigger if you want

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Posted by ArkLaTexTiger

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Posted on 12/10/18 at 6:06 am to Bawcephus

I would replace it with a 2 TB WD Black.

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Posted by NYCAuburn

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Posted on 12/10/18 at 6:18 am to ArkLaTexTiger

Wd purples are rated for dvrs and surveillance

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Posted by jcole4lsu

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Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:54 am to ArkLaTexTiger

quote:
I would replace it with a 2 TB WD Black.

lol no
Black's are performance drives. OP needs a drive rated for continuous writes and re-writes. WD Red (NAS) or Purple (Surveillance) or the equivalent from Seagate.

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Posted by Bawcephus

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Posted on 12/10/18 at 1:29 pm to jcole4lsu

Got purple.

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Posted by ArkLaTexTiger

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Posted on 12/15/18 at 9:47 am to jcole4lsu

Thanks for the feedback. At work we had a rash of failures with blue and replaced them with black a while back and haven't had any problems since. At the time black seemed to be the best solution.

It appears that WD has reworked their product line some since I last looked. The green has been eliminated. The purple, red and gold models look interesting. LINK

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