Question 1

can this be used as surveillance hdd?

Accepted Answer

Yes, it certainly can be. I've had this drive for a few years now and it has performed flawlessly.

Question 2

Is this a brand new drive, or is it reconditioned or removed from another product?

Accepted Answer

As far as I understand it, the WD drives are NEW devices with a warranty. That Warranty is the clincher when you buy a new drive. I have 24 WD 2 TB drives in 3 different RAID Arrays. About twice  year I lose a drive from a SMART Failure. When it is under warranty, I send it back to WD and a new drive arrives within a week. No problem - because they are under warranty.

Of course, some of my drives are out of warranty, so when one of those fails, I simply jump on Newegg to order a new one when I need it. They ship as fast as WD ships the replacement drive.

Question 3

is this product compatible with imac8,1 2008?

Accepted Answer

Pretty sure SATA3 HDD will work with 2008 iMac. I can't paste links into this form, but internet research shows evidence of people successfully doing it.

Question 4

Can this HHD be use has a stand alone drive also? Being using it for storage. Thanks

Accepted Answer

Yes of course. Has better fault tolerance, perfectly fine as a single stand alone drive.

Question 5

Will this work with windows XP?

Accepted Answer

I'm not an expert.  I don't use XP.

Apparently new hard drives use 4k byte physical sectors and older drives used 512 byte sectors.

Newer Windows understand this but XP does not.  I think you can fix this by running the WD Advanced Format utility.

Question 6

Does this come with a SATA cable?

Accepted Answer

No.

Question 7

Is this a USB 2.0 or 3.0? No where in the specs does it say. Thanks.

Accepted Answer

It is neither. It has a SATA connection because it is an INTERNAL hard drive not an External.

Question 8

how can i download the latest firmware of this?

Accepted Answer

I never had to upgrade the firmware.
I run Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit
OS recognized HD in the first boot, but I use this drive as data storage not as main OS boot device.

Question 9

I have WHS V1 and it will not work with Advanced Format Drives. (4K vs 512 byte sectors) Anyone know if this drive is 512?

Accepted Answer

512 bytes per sector.

Question 10

Recent purchasers - what was the month, year of Manufacture of the drive you received? The 5 year warranty starts from the mfg date, so I am curious on how old these drives are.

Accepted Answer

I do not have the drive out anymore, but I purchased it 2yrs ago, July 2013, so it is at least that old.

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