Toshiba Surveillance (MD03) 3TB 7200RPM 3.5″ HDD
R1,945.00 inc. VAT
The Toshiba MD03ACA300 is a 3.5″ surveillance-grade hard drive delivering 3TB of storage at 7200 RPM with a 64MB cache and SATA 6Gb/s interface, purpose-built for 24/7 continuous operation. The MD03ACA-V series features Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors for great scalability and performance in RAID environments, a 1,000,000 hour MTTF, and is designed for demanding surveillance environments including NVRs, DVRs, and hybrid SDVR systems. An excellent choice for CCTV infrastructure, video surveillance storage, and always-on recording builds.
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Description
Built for Surveillance — Not Just Desktop Storage
The MD03ACA300 is not a repurposed desktop drive. The MD03ACA-V series is specifically intended for demanding surveillance environments such as network video recorders (sNVR), surveillance digital video recorders (sDVR), and hybrid SDVRs, delivering 24/7 operation with a MTTF of 1 million hours. This purpose-built design means the drive’s firmware, power management, and error recovery are tuned for the continuous sequential write workloads that characterise video surveillance — workloads that consumer desktop drives handle poorly over extended periods.
Rotational Vibration Sensors for RAID & Multi-Drive Arrays
The MD03ACA-V HDDs use RV sensors to compensate for rotational vibration, delivering great reliability and scalability in RAID environments. In densely populated NVR enclosures and RAID arrays where multiple drives spin simultaneously, vibration from neighbouring drives is a common cause of performance degradation and premature failure. The MD03ACA300’s built-in RV compensation actively counteracts this, maintaining consistent read/write performance regardless of how many other drives share the enclosure.
High-Definition Stream Support
The large capacities and great performance of these HDDs enable storage of high-resolution camera feeds, support for long data retention periods, and support for a large number of camera streams. The 64MB cache and 7200 RPM spin speed ensure the drive can sustain the continuous write throughput required by multi-channel HD and 4K surveillance systems without dropping frames or experiencing buffer overruns.
💡 The MD03ACA300 is an ideal choice for businesses and installers building out CCTV and IP camera recording infrastructure on a budget. Its surveillance-specific firmware, RV sensor protection, and 1M hour MTTF make it significantly more suitable for always-on recording workloads than equivalent-capacity consumer desktop drives. Also well-suited to RAID-based NAS builds where multi-drive vibration compensation is a requirement.
Key Highlights
- Purpose-built surveillance HDD — firmware and power management tuned for 24/7 recording
- 1,000,000 hour MTTF — well above consumer desktop equivalents
- Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors — stable performance in multi-drive RAID arrays
- 7200 RPM for sustained HD and 4K camera stream throughput
- 64MB cache for smooth sequential write performance
- SATA III 6Gb/s — backward compatible with SATA II and I
- Supports NVR, DVR, hybrid SDVR, and RAID surveillance deployments
- 70G operating shock resistance
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