Hard Drive recommendations?

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designatedduff
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Hard Drive recommendations?

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What hard drives do you recommend? I was looking to get a WD purple used from ebay I saw there is an X and a Z model?
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burger
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Re: Hard Drive recommendations?

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Not SSD. There are only three spinning HDD manufacturers. Take your pick.
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ffmpeg -i rtsp://<user>:<pass>@<ipaddress>:554/path ./output.mp4 (if terminal only)
ffplay rtsp://<user>:<pass>@<ipaddress>:554/path (gui)
find paths on ispydb or in zm hcl

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