Replacing an existing hard drive

needacamera

Hi there,


I have a device which is the attached picture which has a HD. I'm wondering if it is replaceable by the following HD being sold on ebay. I cannot post links but the e bay number is
232664219205. If you type this number into an ebay search it will come up, sorry for the inconvenience.


Also, I was told the Hd interface is: 3.5 inch STA 2 interface with a maximum of 4TB. Can you tell if that is true from the picture?


Thank you

needacamera

Unfortunately I cannot upload the pic from imgur but if anyone can help I can PM you the imgur link, thanks so much

arciere

Can't see the original picture but the one on eBay is a SATA 3.5 so, yes, it will compatible.

EveryWhere

needacamera wrote: »

Hi there,


I have a device which is the attached picture which has a HD. I'm wondering if it is replaceable by the following HD being sold on ebay. I cannot post links but the e bay number is
232664219205. If you type this number into an ebay search it will come up, sorry for the inconvenience.


Also, I was told the Hd interface is: 3.5 inch STA 2 interface with a maximum of 4TB. Can you tell if that is true from the picture?


Thank you

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3TB-SATA-3-5-SATA-DESKTOP-INTERNAL-HARD-DISK-DRIVE-3-5-INCH-PC-CCTV-DVR-New-/232664219205

Yes, but I wouldn't do what you might be thinking of doing.

I would buy an SSD instead as your boot device and use the HDD as secondary storage if you need more.

120 GB SSD drives start from under £20

Your PC will be much faster than before.

EveryWhere

Just post the link without the www. etc

arciere

EveryWhere wrote: »

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3TB-SATA-3-5-SATA-DESKTOP-INTERNAL-HARD-DISK-DRIVE-3-5-INCH-PC-CCTV-DVR-New-/232664219205

Yes, but I wouldn't do what you might be thinking of doing.

I would buy an SSD instead as your boot device and use the HDD as secondary storage if you need more.

120 GB SSD drives start from under £20

Your PC will be much faster than before.

You don't even know what the drive is for?
If it's for a CCTV recorder, an SSD is a waste of money.

googler

Before we get into the realms of this, could you tell us what are you trying to achieve with this process?

needacamera wrote: »

Unfortunately I cannot upload the pic from imgur but if anyone can help I can PM you the imgur link, thanks so much

If you can view your own picture, there should be an option to copy a share link from it. Copy that, click the image icon here above your text box, and paste the link into the box which appears

EveryWhere

arciere wrote: »

You don't even know what the drive is for?
If it's for a CCTV recorder, an SSD is a waste of money.

Indeed, I jumped the gun, as they only did mention "device".

needacamera

arciere - thank you for the advice. Yes it's a dvr



everywhere - thank you for posting the link. This is a dvr not a pc and the HD is running out so I need to replace it and there's no room for extra I don't think. Thanks for your response.


googler - hi, I am trying to replace a 1tb hd with a 3tb hd on a dvr which is currently running out of storage and I'd like to keep the hd with the footage on it instead of deleting it. I was going to get a new box but it cost £180 so I looked up online abot HDs, how to replace them etc. so I am going that route but I am a bit overwhelmed with all the info I've absorbed in the last 24 hours and I don't want to screw it up. I have tried to attach a photo using that method but it still returns the same error of not being allowed to post a link

needacamera

here is the imgur link .i.imgur.com/2MGfypj.jpg
thanks

[Deleted User]

Hi,


here is the photie,