Western Digital Expands Smart Video Surveillance Solution with New WD Purple Pro
Western Digital has announced the expansion of the WD Purple family with the WD Purple Pro product line for a new generation of advanced AI-enabled recorders and back-end servers.
The new WD Purple Pro line is designed to handle workloads with optimized storage performance, capacity, workload capability and reliability for a myriad of devices.
Brian Mallari, director of marketing for Smart Video, Western Digital says the Purple Pro is the ideal solution to enable original equipment manufacturers and integrators to evolve their systems for emerging AI workloads.
The WD Purple Pro hard drive features include enhanced AllFrame AI technology enabling video streams from up to 64 HD cameras to be recorded concurrently while simultaneously handling up to an additional 32 AI streams for AI functions, whether cameras are directly connected to advanced recorders or to cloud-based servers.
It also boasts high performance and workload capability, supporting up to 550TB a year workload rating, provides for the additional demands of AI functionality, including pattern matching and object/event recognition, while writing a multitude of video streams.
WD Purple Pro hard drive capacities of range from 8TB to 18TB with a five-year limited warranty and will be available this quarter from resellers.
