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Western Digital Debuts Surveillance-Class Hard Drive Line

More marketing bullshit from Western Digital. What I find most remarkable is how many people believe this BS. Hey, if people are that dumb, who can honestly blame them?
 
I've had terrible luck with their Green drives in the past. I've had four of them fail on me and even the replacements that I got from WD still failed on me.
 
About just making a reliable line of drives. Forget the intended use or flashy use of colors. Just make them more reliable.
 
Carson Dyle said:
More marketing bullshit from Western Digital. What I find most remarkable is how many people believe this BS. Hey, if people are that dumb, who can honestly blame them?
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What exactly is supposed to make a surveillance class hard drive different? Mostly a label saying it is, by the looks of it.
 
When are they gonna come out with porn drives? I'm concerned about loosing my entire collection to an unreliable drive not designed to hold valuable porn.
 
Carson Dyle said:
More marketing bullshit from Western Digital. What I find most remarkable is how many people believe this BS. Hey, if people are that dumb, who can honestly blame them?
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Or perhaps they've read the press release and attained a basic level of understanding of the benefits:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1210

Improve performance with AllFrame
WD Purple surveillance-class hard drives are equipped with AllFrame technology which works with ATA streaming to reduce frame loss, improve playback and increases the number of drive bays supported. AllFrame reduces video interruptions that commonly occur when desktop hard drives are incorrectly used as storage in security systems. Missed frames and lost footage is a serious problem when an event occurs and surveillance footage needs to be retrieved. WD Purple with AllFrame provides the confidence you should expect when it’s time to play back and review critical surveillance footage.

Key benefits:
Reduces video frame loss with surveillance-class storage.
Specifically tuned for surveillance security systems.
Caching algorithms are tuned for write-intensive, low bit rate, high stream count applications that are typical of surveillance applications.
Priority change for write allocations and preemptive caching policies.
TLER & ATA streaming support.
Supports up to eight drives.
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I don't work with security systems myself, but there's clearly more to this drive than just a purple sticker.
 
Sounds similar to the Seagate "Pipeline" line of drives which are supposedly optimized for DVR recording and delivering multiple streams of video...
 
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BFG10K said:
I don't work with security systems myself, but there's clearly more to this drive than just a purple sticker.
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Sure, but they're being all breathless over changing the label. They've made the drive for years, already, under the "AV" and "AV-GP" names.
 
Cerb said:
Sure, but they're being all breathless over changing the label.
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Your original statement What exactly is supposed to make a surveillance class hard drive different? Mostly a label saying it is, by the looks of it. has been answered.

I posted what makes a surveillance class drive different, and it has nothing to do with the label. It could have no label and still be such a drive.

They've made the drive for years, already, under the "AV" and "AV-GP" names.
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Right, and such drives are also surveillance class drives, regardless of the label.
 
BFG10K said:
Right, and such drives are also surveillance class drives, regardless of the label.
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How can it be regardless of label, when the term is part of the label? "Surveillance class," is a new marketing term made just for this series of hard drive, as far as I can tell.
 
I was looking to buy a new drive and came here looking for reviews about the purple... and here you guys are making a joke out of it... thanks. Review noted.
 
Doomer said:
When are they gonna come out with porn drives? I'm concerned about loosing my entire collection to an unreliable drive not designed to hold valuable porn.
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Sounds like you need to implement a backup strategy.

If valuable data, you don't use just one disk. You back it up with another, and another, and maybe even another...

When the zombie apocalypse happens and there's no more interwebs, you'll be glad you did.
 
enggricha said:
I was looking to buy a new drive and came here looking for reviews about the purple... and here you guys are making a joke out of it... thanks. Review noted.
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on topic: the biggest change seems to be new features in the firmware.
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Seek and ye shall find... 😵

I have the pre-Purple drive, the Green AV-GP... it works like it should, running 24/7 for about 18 months now.
 
What I have a problem with isn't the re-branding, its charging more for rewriting the firmware to be slightly better for PVR at a large cost of normal everyday performance. The rebranding makes sense no reason to build a new drive from the ground up if its not going to be much faster then a currently available drive with different firmware. We already see this a lot in SSD's (Plextor for example). But it would be one thing if the drive was truly better, but in an RPG sense (+1 to surveillance -3 file transfer) its overall performance is negative compared to the original but is only available at a price hike. That rubs me the wrong way. If anything charge the same.
 
Topweasel said:
What I have a problem with isn't the re-branding, its charging more for rewriting the firmware to be slightly better for PVR at a large cost of normal everyday performance. The rebranding makes sense no reason to build a new drive from the ground up if its not going to be much faster then a currently available drive with different firmware. We already see this a lot in SSD's (Plextor for example). But it would be one thing if the drive was truly better, but in an RPG sense (+1 to surveillance -3 file transfer) its overall performance is negative compared to the original but is only available at a price hike. That rubs me the wrong way. If anything charge the same.
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We don't buy the gimmicks. But those who make the purchasing decisions for companies that would buy these eat the marketing bs right up.
 
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