Western Digital WD180PURZ WD Purple? Surveillance – 18TB

Western Digital WD180PURZ WD Purple? Surveillance – 18TB

Operating at a rotational speed of 5400 RPM, the drive delivers consistent and efficient performance for handling high-definition video streams. It features a SATA III 6Gb/s interface, ensuring fast data transfer rates and compatibility with a wide range of surveillance systems.

Equipped with AllFrame? technology, the WD Purple? Surveillance drive minimizes frame loss and improves video playback. This technology enhances the drive’s ability to handle multiple simultaneous video streams, reducing interruptions and ensuring smooth and accurate surveillance footage.

Designed for continuous operation, the WD Purple? Surveillance drive provides long-lasting durability and dependability in demanding surveillance environments. It incorporates advanced error correction mechanisms and vibration control technology to minimize the risk of data loss or corruption, ensuring the integrity of recorded video data.

The drive is compatible with major surveillance system manufacturers and NVRs (Network Video Recorders), allowing for seamless integration into existing surveillance infrastructures. This ensures easy installation and simplifies the setup process.

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

The WD Purple? Surveillance drive is backed by Western Digital’s extensive experience in surveillance storage solutions, ensuring high reliability and compatibility. It is designed to withstand the demands of surveillance applications and offers long-term durability for continuous recording and storage needs.

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 5400 RPM, providing smooth and efficient performance for handling high-definition 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? Surveillance drive has an enhanced workload rating of up to 360TB 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? 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? 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

• Write-Intensive Workload Support: The drive is designed to handle write-intensive surveillance workloads, making it suitable for applications that require continuous and reliable recording of high-definition video footage.
• Advanced Error Correction: It incorporates advanced error correction technology, such as RAID-specific error recovery control, to ensure data integrity and minimize the risk of data loss or corruption during video recording and playback.
• Enhanced Compatibility with NVRs: The WD Purple? Surveillance drive is specifically designed for compatibility with Network Video Recorders (NVRs), ensuring seamless integration into surveillance systems and hassle-free installation.
• Reduced Frame Loss: With its optimized firmware and advanced technology, the drive minimizes frame loss during video recording and playback, ensuring smooth and accurate video footage for effective surveillance analysis.
• Multi-Stream Technology: The drive supports multi-stream technology, allowing it to efficiently handle multiple video streams from different cameras simultaneously, ensuring uninterrupted recording and playback of surveillance footage.
• Intelligent Caching: It includes intelligent caching algorithms that optimize the storage and retrieval of frequently accessed surveillance data, improving overall system performance and responsiveness.
• Enhanced Workload Capability: The drive is designed to handle the rigorous demands of surveillance workloads, offering excellent endurance and reliability for continuous recording and playback.
• Video Streaming Performance: The WD Purple? Surveillance drive provides enhanced video streaming performance, ensuring smooth and reliable playback of high-definition surveillance footage.
• Long-Term Data Retention: It is engineered for long-term data retention, making it an ideal choice for archiving surveillance footage for future reference or legal requirements.
• Data Integrity Features: The drive incorporates features like Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) and dynamic fly height technology, which help maintain data integrity by compensating for rotational vibrations and optimizing head position.
• Extended Warranty: The WD Purple? Surveillance drive typically comes with an extended warranty period, providing added peace of mind and assurance of its reliability and quality.
• 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.
• Temperature Control: The WD Purple? Surveillance drive includes temperature control features, ensuring optimal operating temperatures and preventing overheating during prolonged operation.