SeagateSkyHawk 2TB Surveillance 3.5" Hard Drive

I bought this for my Humax pvr/dvr, due to a soft file system problem on the original Sata-1 1TB disk and to upgrade to a 2TB disk.The dimensions of the disk were Ok despite being thicker (3rd dimension the depth of it) than the original it was replacing.The space on it is the 1 MB = 1,000 * 1024 bytes rather than the 1,024 * 1,024, as is usually the case these days.It is working fine for me.

I bought this 2TB SkyHawk to replace the default 500GB drive in my DRX890WL Sky+ HD Box. The SkyHawk has been running fine for the last 6 months, no problems.Most Sky+ HD boxes contain a Seagate Pipeline or Seagate Video hard drive; these are available on Amazon, but they're all old stock. Pipeline/Video stopped being made around 2014 (6 years ago!), the SkyHawk is Seagate's replacement for these drives; why buy a 6 (or more) year old drive when you can get something brand new?!I have bought several 'upgraded' Sky+ HD boxes off Amazon and Ebay, on opening them up the seller has just stuck a Pipeline/Video in there (because they're cheap). I have also come across some 'upgraded' boxes that have old Western Digital AV-GP drives, these have long since been replaced by Western Digital Purple Surveillance drives.The SkyHawk and WD Purple are both good drives.My preference is for the SkyHawk as I prefer Seagate drives, they're in most of my computers at home; I also work as an Infrastructure Engineer for a large online travel company, we have two data centres with around 2500 servers, the HP Blades and other physical machines the servers are running on have mostly Seagate drives.In addition most Sky+ HD boxes I have opened up have a Seagate Pipeline or Video in them. Also the Pipeline/Video run at 5900 rpm, so does the SkyHawk, the WD Purple runs at 5400 rpm. The SkyHawk is just a better matching replacement for the original.Other than the obvious increase in disk space, the only other thing I noticed upon upgrading was that fast-forwarding/rewinding was considerably faster than the original Pipeline drive.My hard drive is mounted outside the Sky box in a NAS enclosure, this allows me to backup the drive. I have a total of four SkyHawks, the live one in the NAS enclosure, and three I use for backups. I create sector-by-sector backups using the DD command on Linux, it takes about 7.5 hours; the source and backup drive are in a USB3 dual caddy.I used ExPVR to migrate my programmes from the original 500GB drive to the SkyHawk.

I had a HDD start failing on my PVR ..... so decided to swap before total failuure.Swap over was very easy just a few simple screws ..... form factor identical ........... impressive going from 500MB to 2TB, and its plug & play.Once it had formatted & brought itself on-line I transferred over all existing recordings.Very quiet, fast and great capacity for the price.My first Desk top computer had 30MB HD (5") and had to have OS on that as well.Incredible that I can slot 2TB into my video recorder, and HD is cheaperf than the 30MB would have been.,

Purchased for my NVR, setup was easy, pretty much work straight away.

Dive arrived and my heart sank as it was handed to me rattling around in a box with a small sheet of bubble wrap half heartedly wrapped around it. My fears were confirmed 5 minutes later with a dead drive. Not surprising.I have seen this mentioned a lot with how Amazon does not understand how to send out such devices. This must be costing them a fortune in unnecessary returns.I will no longer buy mechanical drives from Amazon.

very good

Simple choice, by quality and it pays in the end!!

Great product, simple to fit, overall very happy.

El producto llegó sin problemas y antes de lo anticipado, solo puedo objetar que el embalaje del hdd era pésimo, por suerte no se daño el hdd, solo lo envolvieron con un poco de cartón, no venía bien protegido, en cuanto a operación desempeña su trabajo de momento sin mayor problema y el DVR lo detecta como sano

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Todo muy correcto.

Benutze diese HDD Type in verschiedenen TB Größen für die Aufzeichnung in Digitalen NVR Videorekordern.. Einfach nur gut