Seagate 5TB "advanced format" drive in Blue Iris?

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I am rebuilding my Blue Iris system, and using a proper case (1U short depth). I've had it in a mini PC with laptop drives for storage, and since it likes to eat them I figured I'd change it up.

I have a 4TB Red drive that's pretty old from my storage server I figured I'd use until it croaks, but that's also still what's in my file server. I just had to replace one that's getting bad sectors, so it's kind of nice to have a spare on the shelf (half of them are from around 2014).

I have a couple 5TB Seagate advanced format drives that were shucked out of external boxes. I was kind of planning just selling them cheap, but I'm wondering if these wouldn't be OK for a camera server? I know they are slow, but it's a single camera (don't laugh, I live in an apartment at the moment). I don't really care if it kills the drives, and I have two of them. Are there any issues using these for a Blue Iris system? If I had a dozen cameras or something I wouldn't consider it, but this is just a single camera, maybe add a second at most.
 
Oh right, duh--these are full size 3.5" drives. ST5000DM000 is the model number, but they are a few years old. I shucked them and had them running in a server for a couple months and they were fine, but it was just backup/file storage.
 
That will be fine. Even a highdef video feed running continuously for a single camera is at most a few Mb per second which that will more than handle.
 
Any HDD will be fine for that setup. I have a laptop HDD for 8 cameras on BI. No issues.
(Although to be fair, I did buy the WD AV-25 model just in case)
 
You'll be fine--the data rate will be enough even for a hard drive that's 10 years old. Run it and have fun with it. :)
 
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