WD revolutionizes surveillance-class hard drives with WD Purple NV

WD, a Western Digital company, has introduced WD Purple NV, a purpose-built line of 3.5-inch, high-capacity 4TB and 6TB hard drives for the greater demands of scalable network video recorder (NVR) surveillance systems.

Compared with standard WD Purple drives, the new member of the WD’s surveillance video recording family of drives, WD Purple NV, is designed for larger-scale network surveillance systems utilizing higher hard drive bay counts and greater numbers of attached cameras, which demand increased storage capacity and durability. The new drives’ high capacities also enable long video retention periods for analysis and reference. WD Purple NV is also designed to withstand the demands of always-on digital NVR recording environments. It offers low-power consumption and many advanced performance features typically reserved for higher-end surveillance storage.

“The global video surveillance market is expanding with the increased accessibility to easy-to-use systems for small businesses and municipalities. WD optimized 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 amount 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,” said Matt Rutledge, Senior Vice-President of HDD Marketing, WD... See more