Swann SWNVK 885806 CCTV upgrade from a WD6TB Elements external drive unit

I installed a Swann SWNVK-885806 4K CCTV system at home a year ago and as standard it comes with a 2TB hard drive. As we have 8 cameras always recording in 4k resolution the drive only has about 3 days of the latest footage. In this video you see me strip out a WD 6 TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive and install the drive into my CCTV system. The main reason for stripping the external drive and not buying a "ready to fit" internal drive is simply cost. I saved about £50 in doing it this way. There are disk drives specifically made for surveillance systems but as I am only running 8 cameras I don't think I will have an issue.

Prices have changed a little since the purchase but I saved about £50 at that time.

Update. system is running fine and I am now capturing over 9 days of "footage"

Links to items seen in the video are below: Amazon for 6TB external drive I used: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B077RV4ZLY

Swann system I have: https://www.swann.com/uk/swnvk-885806

This is the drive I DIDN'T buy saving me about £50 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Purple-3-5-SATA-6Gb-5400rpm/dp/B071V6SVK2 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZeo5mvMm3U