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Western Digital expands family of WD Purple solutions to fuel smart video workloads
2020-09-24 01:30

Enabling customers to design and build solutions for a variety of smart video workloads, Western Digital announced its expanded family of WD Purple storage solutions, including the industry's highest capacity 18TB surveillance HDD for DVRs, NVRs and analytics appliances, and the 1TB WD Purple SC QD101 microSD card for AI-enabled cameras.

Setting the bar for smart video applications, all WD Purple drives are optimized to help reduce frame loss and pixelation, improve overall video playback and enhance streaming for 24×7 workloads - from ingest to backup and long-term storage - as the industry broadens the use of deep learning and analytics.

Western Digital's HDD firmware optimizations and data management capabilities for its WD Purple drives play a critical role in improving system capabilities as well as managing devices across AI-enabled smart video solutions.

"Every Tyco Cloud video surveillance solution runs on WD Purple today as it has for many years. As we continue to innovate with features such as cloud-based storage health monitoring and alerts, we will continue to count on Western Digital to deliver the advanced solutions our customers need. We make the world a safer place with Western Digital technology."

"Eric Spanneut, vice president, Client Computing and Smart Video Business at Western Digital, said,"Working side-by-side with our customers and ecosystem partners gives us unique insights and focus on delivering solutions that are optimized for the most advanced security video workloads.


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