HDD

Trusted engineering
Built to WD's highest standards of quality and reliability, WD Blue offers the features and entry-level capacities that are ideal for your computing needs. WD Blue is designed by the brand that you trust with the quality you would expect for a tested, proven, everyday storage solution.

A modern classic
WD Blue storage is designed and manufactured with technology found in WD's original award-winning desktop and mobile hard drives. WD Blue sets the baseline for everyday storage by consistently delivering improved performance over previous generations while successfully maintaining WD's quality and reliability for over six generations. The difference is that our colors never fade, generation after generation.

Your power of choice
WD Blue is available in a broad range of entry-level capacities, cache sizes, form factors and interfaces so you can be sure there's a drive that's the perfect fit for your system. However, not all hard drives are created equally and for your applications that demand more, WD gives you the power of choice.

Drive with confidence
We perform tests on hundreds of systems, configurations, and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab to give our customers the confidence that our drives will work in their systems for the ultimate compatibility. WD Blue allows you to use our drive with confidence, knowing that our storage advancements such as NoTouch Ramp Load technology are proven and reliable everyday solutions.

NoTouch Ramp Load technology
The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Upgrading your drive is easy
WD Acronis TrueImage, available as a free download on the WD Support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive.

WD RED NAS HARD DRIVES

Ideal for:
Up to 8-bay network attached storage (NAS) systems
Personal, Home and Small Office NAS systems
Centralizing storage for photos, videos & other office documents.
Form factor:
NAS 3.5-inch Hard Drive
Specifications:
2TB Capacity
SATA 6 Gb/s
Optimized with NASwareTM

FEATURES

EXPERIENCED IN NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE

No matter which NAS enclosure you decide to purchase, you can trust that WD Red hard drives will be the most reliable NAS storage on the market. This is because WD has the most extensive NAS partner compatibility-testing list available in the industry.

NAS FOR HOME & SMALL BUSINESS

WD Red hard drives enable our customers to create their own reliable Personal Cloud systems whether it's in the office or at home. WD gives you peace of mind knowing your data is stored locally on WD Red NAS hard drives and not outside of your personal network. Want to safely store and share important business documents to one central location? WD Red hard drives are a great solution for small businesses or home office set ups who want NAS systems with safe and reliable storage.

WD RED & NASWARE

WD Red hard drives are designed specifically with our NAS optimized technology called NASware, which optimizes a WD Red hard drive for the 1 to 8 bay NAS enviornment. NASware helps to further improve drive reliability as well as compatibility for NAS systems, ensuring that WD Red will work with partner systems.

IDEAL FOR

WD Red hard drives are available in a variety of capacities of up to 8TB for 3.5 inch form factors and up to 1TB for 2.5 inch form factors. WD recommends using WD Red hard drives for NAS enclosures up to 8-bays which means customers have a potential of 64TB of storage in a single NAS enclosure!

WD BLUE PC HARD DRIVES

• Engineered specifically for surveillance security systems.
• Supports up to 180TB/year workload rate.
• Tuned for write-intensive, low bit-rate, high stream-count applications typical to most surveillance applications.
• Prioritized write-operations for maximized surveillance performance.
• TLER & ATA streaming support.
• Support for more than eight bays.

Built for 24/7, always-on, high-definition security systems. With a supported workload rate of up to 180 TB/yr and support for up to 64 cameras, WD Purple drives are optimized for surveillance systems.

Features

SEAMLESS INTEGRATION!
With a wide range of industry-leading enclosures and chipsets supported, you're sure to find the configuration and compatibility that's right for your NVR.

LESS IS MORE!
Low power consumption is a must in a high-temperature, always-on surveillance environment. IntelliSeek technology helps reduce damaging ambient noise and vibrations.

Designed for Surveillance
The WD Purple drive is designed for both DVR and NVR security systems, and is compatible with many of the the leading surveillance and security manufacturers. We can help you find the perfect storage for your system.

More cameras. More clarity. More surveillance.
Built for 24/7, always-on, high-definition security systems. With a supported workload rate of up to 180 TB/yr and support for up to 64 cameras, WD Purple drives are optimized for surveillance systems.

The Right Drive for the Job
WD Purple drives have been engineered specifically for the extreme demands of high temperature, 24/7 surveillance systems.

Expand Your View to 64
WD Purple drives are optimized to support up to 64 cameras, giving you flexibility to upgrade or expand your security system.

Performance You Can Trust
From a worldwide leader in the storage industry, WD Purple is engineered for quality video playback when you need it most.

Technical Specifications
WD Purple is built for personal, home office or small business surveillance systems using up to 64 HD cameras.