WD Purple Hard Drives

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2021: WD Purple Pro Line View

Western Digital Corp. announced on May 19, 2021 the expansion of the WD Purple family, introducing the WD Purple Pro product line, created for the generation of advanced recording devices with elements AI and backend.servers

According to IDC forecasts, the global market for surveillance cameras will grow from $23.6 billion in 2019 to $44 billion by 2025. The development of architectural solutions for video surveillance systems, which record, store and analyze huge volumes of video materials, as well as perform resource-intensive tasks in video analysis based on deep learning, is accompanied by an unprecedented level of load on storage subsystems. The WD Purple Pro line of technical solutions enables you to cope with similar workloads and optimize storage performance, power, load characteristics, and reliability for countless devices, including network video recorders (NVRs) with AI elements, video analytics servers, storage arrays, storage/server solutions, including those running deep learning analytics.

Now, with the introduction of the WD Purple Pro, our full line of CCTV products covers a variety of customer needs - from special cards microSD WD Purple for cameras to WD Purple hard drives for mass network DVRs and the latest generation of smart CCTV architectural solutions. in which the "smart" element begins with brains in the backend, that is, on servers, responsible for video analytics and in-depth learning, requiring enormous computing power, - noted the marketing director of the direction "Video Surveillance" Western Digital Brian Mallari. - WD Purple Pro is a solution that opens up the full range of capabilities for hardware manufacturers and integrators seeking to adapt their systems to the expansion of AI workloads.

The pros of WD Purple Pro are:

• Advanced AllFrame AI technology, which supports parallel recording of streaming video from different video capture devices (up to 64 cameras at the same time) and simultaneous work with additional 32 data streams to perform AI functions, while cameras can be connected both directly to new recording devices and to cloud servers.
• The high performance and increased workload of up to 550 TB per year enables the processing of additional requests from AI functions, including pattern recognition and object/event recognition, while recording multiple video streams.
• Highly reliable and powerful solutions help you download and process thousands of hours of video for AI training, which allows you to continue to develop effective deep learning and AI algorithms. New drives are available in volumes from 8 to 18 TB3 and come with a five-year limited warranty.
• Enterprise reliability standard that allows hardware to be used in servers for high-volume video analytics and cloud solutions. Systems that support this feature continuously monitor the status of HDD drives through Western Digital Device Analytics.

Western Digital's WD Purple Pro line is a high-capacity solution tailored to current AI needs and provides the performance needed to support large data workloads; the reliability of this solution will allow users to entrust their most important data to him, "said Dave Nieuweg, Milestone Systems Community Program Manager. - Robust storage solutions, whether for primary video capture devices or for the cloud, are a key element in achieving your primary tasks - from providing safer access to buildings or schools and tracking patient conditions to collecting and analyzing data on parking and traffic flows in a smart city to improve security and efficiency.

Western Digital's full line of WD Purple solutions for video surveillance includes: microSD WD Purple cards with up to 1 TB3 for cameras and video capture devices, HDD drives for WD Purple network DVRs with 1-8 TB3, and now WD Purple Pro drives with a capacity of 8 to 18 TB for use in a wide variety of systems in situations of hard workloads from AI, including extreme