WD, a Western Digital company offering storage products, has introduced WD Purple NV. That’s a line of 3.5-inch, 4 TB and 6 TB hard drives for network video recorders (NVRs).
Compared with standard WD Purple drives, the new drive, WD Purple NV, is designed for larger-scale network surveillance systems using higher hard drive bay counts and greater numbers of attached cameras, the makers say. The new drives also enable long video retention periods it’s claimed. The products are for always-on digital NVR recording and offer it’s claimed low power consumption and features typically reserved for higher end surveillance storage.
Matt Rutledge, senior vice president of HDD marketing at WD, said: “The global video surveillance market is expanding with the increased accessibility to easy-to-use systems for small businesses and municipalities. WD optimised the WD Purple NV line of hard drives for NVR digital surveillance systems to improve high-definition video playback for high-camera-count applications. NVR surveillance systems can produce incredible amounts of data which makes the WD Purple NV hard drives a perfect solution for NVR systems needing high quality recording and playback and high capacity storage.” Visit http://products.wd.com/wdpurple.
