Applies to: Zosi DVR / POE NVRs / Wireless NVRs;

1) Heavy workloads

A PC Hard Drive delivers dependable performance for your everyday office and web applications. Designed for use as a primary storage drive in desktop PCs, select the ideal capacity for your PC.s not  suitable for reading and writing data for a  long working hours. As a result, multiple problems may occur, causing data loss and so on. While the Surveillance Hard Drives HDD

are not typical drives. They support heavy surveillance workloads by design.

2) Transmission mode 

In addition to the traditional hard disk transmission mode, the Surveillance hard disk also adopts the uninterrupted transmission mode.  That's something you don't get on a normal hard drive for pc .  

3) Power management (power startup)                                                                                               

The startup current of typical drives range from 2.8A to 3.2A.  while Surveillance Hard Drives are up to 2.0A.  

4) Operating power consumption and heat dissipation difference                                              

The power consumption of Surveillance Hard Drive is only 55% of that of a common PC disk.

 Surveillance Hard Drive reduces the system heat dissipation requirement and makes the system more adaptable to the environment. Optimizes the HDD to thrive in high temperature, always-on, surveillance system environments Yes ,Choosing the right one will add value to your system.

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