Features
- Holds 8TB on a 3.5-inch SATA drive
- Ultrastar line from Western Digital
- Enterprise class, for server and data centre bays
- Runs in RAID arrays
- Made to run around the clock
The Western Digital Ultrastar 8TB is a 3.5-inch enterprise hard drive. It comes from the Ultrastar series, which Western Digital makes for servers, storage arrays and data centres rather than for a single desktop or a camera recorder.
It connects over SATA and fits the standard 3.5-inch bays found in rack and tower servers. It is designed for continuous operation and for RAID configurations and high-density arrays, where several drives share the work.
It is used in enterprise servers, NAS systems, backup platforms and CCTV recording servers. That makes it a fit for a recording server or storage array that already uses enterprise drives and needs another one of the same class.
This is an enterprise drive, not a drive sold for CCTV recorders as such. If you are fitting a standard DVR or NVR, check the recorder's manual for the drive types and capacity it accepts, and check that your server or controller takes SATA drives. Ask us before ordering if you need the interface speed, cache size or spindle speed, and we will point you to Western Digital's datasheet.
The Storage category lists the SkyHawk and Toshiba S300 drives that are made for recording video, if that is what your recorder needs.
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