HDDs for Commercial Surveillance

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Robust Storage for Commercial Surveillance

Commercial surveillance requires the highest levels of trust and reliability, in a form factor that can endure intensive usage and extreme conditions. And with new AI-enabled applications such as smart transportation and smart cities demanding increased capacity and performance, Western Digital’s HDD storage solutions are there to help your team meet that demand.

Get the peace of mind that comes from surveillance-class storage that’s purpose-built for rigorous commercial use, with the performance required for smart video analytics. The WD Purple family of drives is robust enough to handle 24/7 workloads — plus, they’re built with exclusive AllFrame technology to help reduce frame loss and improve video playback.

Typical Commercial Surveillance System

In a typical commercial surveillance system, such as the one illustrated here, video footage captured by security cameras in the field is transmitted and recorded by a gateway appliance — which could be either a network video recorder (NVR) or server.

This video data can just be stored in the gateway appliance, or optionally (and additionally) be stored in the cloud. Video Management System (VMS) and video analytics software could reside on the gateway appliance and/or the cloud.

Featured Surveillance HDDs

Western Digital’s surveillance-grade smart video storage solutions are built to withstand temperature fluctuations and equipment vibrations in harsh environments, and they’re tested for compatibility with a wide range of security systems. See below for recommendations for onboard camera storage and high-capacity gateway appliance storage.

STORAGE FOR MAINSTREAM GATEWAY APPLIANCES

WD Purple Surveillance Hard Drive

  • Built for the 24/7 rigors of commercial surveillance
  • Workload rating of up to 180TB/year – three times that of a desktop drive
  • Support for up to 64 single-stream cameras
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STORAGE FOR GATEWAY APPLIANCE WITH ANALYTICS

WD Purple Pro Surveillance Hard Drive

  • Designed for systems that operate 24/7
  • Up to 24TB capacity
  • Workload rating of up to 550TB/year
  • Enterprise-class storage for high-performance servers and AI systems
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White Paper

Innovation in Smart Video Storage: How WD Purple Intelligently Manages Video Data

This paper discusses an intelligent approach to storing video surveillance data on hard disk drives (HDDs), utilizing Machine Learning (ML) technology.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Smart video surveillance can benefit from hardware that has been designed and tested to stand up to harsh environments and 24/7 operations while minimizing frame loss in order to reliably capture the footage you need. The average desktop drive is not designed for these conditions.

WD Purple and WD Purple Pro hard drives offer the following benefits:

  • Designed for 24/7 operations
  • Temperature and humidity resistance
  • Drive health monitoring (in compatible systems)

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