WD expands "Purple" line of hard drives
WD, a Western Digital company, has announced expansion of its WD Purple line of 3.5-inch hard drives for surveillance applications, with the release of 6TB capacity. Designed for video surveillance, a highly data-rich category within the “Internet of Things (IoT)”, WD Purple hard drives excel in new and existing home and small business security system environments with up to eight hard drives and up to 32 high-definition (HD) video cameras. Readily available, WD Purple hard drives are being offered in capacities from 1TB up to 6TB.
“Video surveillance has long been a pioneering Internet-of-Things application. Driven by machine-to-machine interaction between high-resolution, high bit-rate video cameras and high-capacity surveillance video recorders, IoT brings access and big data analytics to improve user’s security,” said Matt Rutledge, Senior Vice-President & General Manager of WD’s Storage Technology group.
Built for seamless integration into new or existing video surveillance systems, WD Purple hard drives are designed and tested to surveillance-class standards and are compatible with industry-leading chassis and chip-sets. First introduced in February 2014 with the launch of WD Purple, WD worked closely with surveillance partners to develop a proprietary benchmark to define and demonstrate performance in surveillance systems. Tests of WD Purple hard drives indicate superior performance to competitive surveillance-class brands of storage, especially as cameras, channel count and workloads increase.
WD Purple surveillance-class hard drives are available from 1TB to 6TB capacities and covered by a three-year limited warranty. Pricing for the 3.5-inch 6TB drive, model #: (WD60PURX) is approximately INR19,990 and is expected to be available in India from the third week of November 2014.
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