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Comments (25)
Brian Rhodes
The majority of IPVM just scratched WD off the Christmas card list.
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Rukmini Wilson
Grapevine says WD has offered Prince multi-millions for campaign to start this spring, tentatively named "Purple Raid"...
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Shawn Ho
Does the purple series include anti-vibration sensor? I think it is crucial for racks with multiple machines. WD, compared to Seagate, is slow in surveillance industry. Hope this purple series can be their secret weapon.
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John Honovich
Here is Seagate's feedback on what is new for them:
"Surveillance HDD is our 7th generaton of our surveillance optimized drives and we've added in 3 new features to support the growing surveillance segment.
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #2
I would really be interested in seeing all these metrics to failure rates on drives. Sure we can see that integrators prefer WD Black drives as the most reliable, but in all honesty I have never had a problem using a WD Green drive over a black drive. Who knows maybe I've been lucky.
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Joe Mirolli
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Martin Griffin
Not sure has this already been posted, but Blackblaze's recent report on HDD failures is a good read What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
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Undisclosed End User #3
Wow, this post provided quite a bit of great info we did not know. We had chosen 4TB red drives for an enterprise 4-drive 10TB NAS RAID6. Although it's not primarily used for video surveillance, I wonder if we'll ever wish that we had chosen black?
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Jon Dillabaugh
02/27/14 02:04pm
Is this a simple renaming of the AV-GP series? Even though the AV-GP series of drives were in the Green family, they weren't your average garden variety Eco drive. They were 5400 RPM spindles, which puts them in the Eco class by default, but they were much heavier than other Green, or for that matter Blue, drives. The AV-GP drives were much heavier, like the Black and RE series drives.
What I think this is was a marketing decision to differentiate AV-GP drives from the other Eco, low cost, Green drives.
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Michael Terrizzi
Lorex DVR in Ad. Ill stick with my black FAEX and RE4 drives
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Rogier van der Heide
I just got told by one of our suppliers that the WD Black Caviar series is ending ?!
Anyone heard similar stories or is this one particular supplier just telling fairy tales ?
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #2
Would there be anything to test on these to see if they really are an improvement from standard desktop hard drives? I'm curious if they are worth investing in.
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