Today, Western Digital Corporation is excited to introduce the industry’s highest capacity deep-learning-capable, surveillance-class drive – the Western Digital® Purple 12TB drive – the newest member of its surveillance portfolio.
Network video recording systems are getting smart. Where traditional video surveillance systems detect moving subjects without providing detailed analysis, AI-enabled systems not only detect the moving targets, but can analyze them to help determine if they are a potential threat.
Capabilities like facial recognition and behavior prediction can also drive advancements in the retail and entertainment industries.
With all the surveillance solutions advancements, the amount storage required to capture, store, and analyze the video data continues to rise. Analyst firm IDC says the amount of big data exabytes generated by surveillance solutions is expected to grow by 25% per year through 2021[1] driven by in part by the use of increasingly intelligent applications. Enter Western Digital Purple.
The Western Digital Purple 12TB drive is purpose-built for DVR and NVR video surveillance systems, featuring:
- Exclusive AllFrame AI technology designed specifically for AI-enabled systems
- Support for up to twice as many AI channels (16 AI channels/32 AI streams) than the competition
- 12TB and 10TB capacities
The drive allows video surveillance systems with AI-capabilities to access recorded video for deep learning and analytics, in addition to offering the needed data support for high-res video equipment.
