WD Purple Pro 18 TB hard drive for video surveillance with AllFrame AI

Technical Specifications

• WD Purple® Pro Series Internal Hard Drive for Smart Video Surveillance and Video Analytics
• Formatted capacity of 18 TB
• 3.5-inch form factor
• CMR recording technology
• Helium-filled drive technology
• Advanced Format (AF)
• SATA interface with a buffer-to-host transfer rate of up to 6 Gb/s
• Rotational speed of 7200 rpm
• 512 MB cache
• Internal transfer rate of up to 272 MB/s
• RV rotational vibration sensors

Functionalities

• AllFrame™ AI technology to manage video, image, and metadata streams and help reduce frame loss
• Supports up to 64 single-stream HD cameras
• Supports up to 32 AI streams
• Ready for AI recorders, video storage servers, and video management systems
• No limit on supported drive bays
• Western Digital Device Analytics™ to monitor drive health on compatible systems
• Tarnish-resistant components

Storage

• Workload of up to 550 TB per year
• Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of 2,500,000 hours
• 600,000 charge/discharge cycles
• Unrecoverable read error rate of less than 1 per^10¹⁵ bits read

Power

• Average power consumption of 6.3 W during read and write operations
• Average power consumption of 5.9 W in idle mode
• Average power consumption of 0.9 W in standby or sleep mode

Environmental

• Operating temperature range: 0°C to +65°C
• Non-operating temperature range: -40°C to +70°C
• Shock resistance during read and write operations: 50 G for 2 ms
• Non-operating shock resistance of 250 G for 2 ms
• Noise level: 20 dBA at rest and 36 dBA during average seek

Physical Characteristics

• Dimensions: 147 x 101.6 x 26.1 mm
• Weight: 0.69 kg

Contents

• WD Purple® Pro 18 TB Hard Drive HDD-18TB-PRO (WD181PURP)

Certifications and Standards

• RoHS Compliance