 I needed a hard drive to store videos and then stream those videos using Plex. I got this WD Purple 8TB for cheap. I thought I was all good, but then I went to the internet. According to the internet, it's a bad idea to use a CCTV drive for storage since the firmware or the software brains of the drive cares more about writing data down quickly instead of saving that data accurately. Wait, hold up. A drive is a drive, right? Well, manufacturers now have specialized drives. For WD, green entry level, blue everyday use, black gaming, red network attached storage, purple recording CCTV, and gold enterprise level. But to help with the internet, then I got the drive anyway. I've been using it for 3 months now to save and stream media files. Guess what? It works fine. While my short experience with one drive is hardly conclusive, you may want to keep it in mind if you need general storage and can get CCTV drives for cheap.