Hmm, makes me think about trying a WD drive for my next build, I've never really been a WD user over the years, but a lot of people like them now. I've heard a lot of premature failure stories about Seagate, but I've not experienced them very much myself. I used Seagate drives in the 80s, but then moved to Quantum drives in the late 80s till about 2000, they were bought out by Maxtor, I bought their drives for a couple years, but now have been buying Seagate for the last 10-12 years. I have had 1 premature Seagate failure out of dozens of drives installed. I've never really tried Western Digital, early on they were known to be slow, but a lot changes in 20 years. With a lot of opinions leaning towards WD, the purple drive sounds like the way to go on a NVR PC build I'm planning.