The Western Digital CCTV hard drives optimized for compatibility with surveillance firmware and applications. It is targeted at the home, small office and startup to medium-sized businesses. The discs include data writing for up to 180TB per year making it a reliable product for securing CCTV Surveillance Videos. WD shares its limited warranty with the Purple surveillance hard drive range.
Western Digital has adopted a confident and competitive approach by offering an innovative line of surveillance specific drives are more efficient than other brands. It claims to be the only provider able to support up to 64 cameras owing to its wider performance gap. According to an analysis completed by WD, the purple drives have been shown to perform an average of 5% more efficiently than the HDD surveillance drives of other suppliers.