Western Digital 18TB WD Purple Surveillance Internal Hard Drive HDD (WD180PURZ)

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Key Features

• Engineered specifically for surveillance security systems
• Supports up to 180 TB/yr 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

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