Western Digital WD180PURP WD Purple? Pro Surveillance – 18TB

Western Digital WD180PURP WD Purple? Pro Surveillance – 18TB

Operating at a rotational speed of 7200 RPM, the drive delivers fast and responsive performance for handling multiple video streams and high-resolution surveillance footage. It features a SATA III 6Gb/s interface, ensuring quick data transfer rates and compatibility with a wide range of surveillance systems.

Equipped with AllFrame? technology, the WD Purple? Pro Surveillance drive enhances video streaming and playback by reducing frame loss and ensuring smooth and accurate surveillance footage. This technology is specifically designed for multi-bay surveillance systems, minimizing video interruptions and optimizing system performance.

The drive incorporates advanced error correction mechanisms, vibration control technology, and enhanced workload rating to ensure data integrity, minimize the risk of data loss or corruption, and handle the demanding workloads of surveillance applications.

With its energy-efficient design, the WD Purple? Pro Surveillance drive reduces power consumption and minimizes heat generation, making it suitable for continuous and extended operation. It is also engineered for quiet performance, minimizing operational noise and ensuring a comfortable surveillance environment.

The WD Purple? Pro Surveillance drive is compatible with major surveillance system manufacturers and NVRs (Network Video Recorders), ensuring seamless integration into existing surveillance infrastructures. This allows for easy installation and simplified system setup.

With its extensive testing and built-in reliability features, the WD Purple? Pro Surveillance drive provides long-term durability and dependable performance for professional surveillance applications. It is backed by Western Digital’s expertise in surveillance storage solutions, ensuring high quality and compatibility.

Specifications

• Form Factor: The hard drive features a standard 3.5-inch form factor, making it compatible with most surveillance system drive bays and enclosures.
• Interface: It utilizes the SATA III 6Gb/s interface, ensuring fast and reliable data transfer speeds and compatibility with a wide range of surveillance systems and devices.
• Rotational Speed: The drive operates at a rotational speed of 7200 RPM, providing fast and responsive performance for handling multiple video streams and high-resolution surveillance footage.
• Cache Size: It includes a cache size of 256MB, enabling faster data access and improving overall system responsiveness.
• Workload Rating: The WD Purple? Pro Surveillance drive has an enhanced workload rating of up to 550TB per year, making it suitable for demanding surveillance applications with high data storage and retrieval requirements.
• Advanced Format (AF) Technology: The drive utilizes advanced formatting technology, enabling efficient storage and maximizing the use of available capacity.
• TLER (Time-Limited Error Recovery): It supports TLER technology, which reduces the time taken for error recovery, ensuring uninterrupted operation and reduced risk of dropped frames during video recording.
• Vibration Control: The WD Purple? Pro Surveillance drive incorporates advanced vibration control technology, minimizing vibrations that can affect performance and reliability in surveillance environments.
• Compatibility: The drive is compatible with a wide range of surveillance systems, including major manufacturers’ systems, ensuring seamless integration and operation.
• Data Recovery: It incorporates built-in data recovery features, enabling quick and easy retrieval of surveillance footage in case of accidental deletion or drive failure.
• Energy Efficiency: The WD Purple? Pro Surveillance drive is designed to be energy-efficient, reducing power consumption and minimizing heat generation during operation.
• Long-Term Reliability: It is built for long-term reliability, with extensive testing and a mean time between failures (MTBF) rating, ensuring continuous and dependable operation.
• Noise Reduction: The drive features noise reduction technologies to minimize operational noise, allowing for quiet surveillance system operation.
• Health Monitoring: The drive supports S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology), allowing for continuous monitoring of drive health and providing early warnings of potential issues.
• Power Management: It includes advanced power management features, allowing for reduced power consumption and extending the lifespan of the drive.
• Sealed-Drive Design: The drive incorporates a sealed-drive design, which helps protect it against dust and other environmental contaminants, ensuring long-term reliability in harsh surveillance environments.

Features

• Enhanced Video Recording: The WD Purple? Pro Surveillance drive is optimized for video recording, offering improved performance and reliability for capturing high-quality surveillance footage, even in challenging environments.
• Advanced Streaming Technology: It incorporates advanced streaming technology, ensuring smooth and uninterrupted video streaming for real-time monitoring and playback of surveillance footage.
• Deep Learning Integration: The drive is designed to support deep learning analytics, enabling advanced video analysis and intelligent surveillance applications that can detect and identify specific objects or events.
• Multiple Video Streams: It is capable of handling multiple video streams simultaneously, allowing for the efficient recording and playback of footage from multiple cameras in a surveillance system.
• Enhanced Data Security: The WD Purple? Pro Surveillance drive includes features like secure erase and write protection, providing enhanced data security and protection against unauthorized access or tampering.
• RAID Support: It is compatible with RAID configurations, offering data redundancy and improved data protection in surveillance systems that require high levels of reliability and fault tolerance.
• Quick Data Access: The drive’s fast data access speed ensures quick retrieval and playback of surveillance footage, allowing for efficient searching and analysis of recorded video.
• Intelligent Power Management: It incorporates intelligent power management features, such as low-power idle modes and adaptive spin-up control, to optimize energy usage and extend the lifespan of the drive.
• Surveillance-Grade Components: The WD Purple? Pro Surveillance drive is built with surveillance-grade components, including specialized firmware and advanced error recovery mechanisms, to ensure reliable performance and long-term durability in surveillance environments.
• Optimized for Multi-Bay Systems: It is designed to operate efficiently in multi-bay surveillance systems, with features that minimize power consumption, vibration, and heat generation, ensuring consistent performance and system stability.
• Drive Health Monitoring: The drive supports Western Digital’s exclusive Drive Health Monitoring feature, which provides real-time status updates and notifications to help users proactively manage and maintain drive health.
• Western Digital Device Compatibility: It is fully compatible with Western Digital’s surveillance storage devices, allowing for seamless integration and optimized performance when used in conjunction with Western Digital surveillance solutions.