Western Digital has announced the expansion of the WD Purple family with the WD Purple Pro product line for advanced AI-enabled recorders and back-end servers.
The worldwide video surveillance camera market is estimated to grow to $44 billion by 2025, up from $23.6 billion in 2019, according to IDC. Emerging smart video architectures that capture, store and analyse massive amounts of video data and also perform heavy deep-learning video analytics, are reportedly putting an unprecedented level of stress on storage subsystems. The new WD Purple Pro line is available in capacities from 8TB to 18TB and is designed to handle these workloads with optimised storage performance, capacity, workload capability and reliability for devices including AI-enabled NVRs, video analytics servers, storage arrays and storage/server solutions, including those that perform deep-learning analytics.
Brian Mallari, director of marketing for Smart Video, Western Digital said: “WD Purple Pro is the ideal solution to enable original equipment manufacturers and integrators to evolve their systems for emerging AI workloads.”
WD Purple Pro hard drives also feature enhanced AllFrame AI technology enabling video streams from up to 64 HD cameras to be recorded concurrently, while simultaneously handling up to an additional 32 AI streams for AI functions, whether cameras are directly connected to advanced recorders or to cloud-based servers.
