Which Hard Drive can be used in a PVR

[Davec1]

I am looking to replace the Hard Drive in my Humax PVR. Can I use the Surveillance drives or do I need to use a different model?

Davec1

[JoeySmyth]

A WD Purple will be fine.

WD Purple instead of WD Green Power AV for use in a digital video recorder?

Hi there The WD Purple drive is designed to work in DVRs and should work perfectly fine in your system. It has features that enable it to record video without interruption and thus not losing a single frame from the recording due to other processes. It has optimized sequential speeds and gives priority to the writing processes over the others. It’s also designed and optimized for video streaming so you shouldn’t have issues with that either as well as that they suppor some additi…