Western Digital 24TB WD Purple Pro Surveillance HDD, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512MB Cache, 3.5", Serial ATA-600

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Key Features

• Up to 24TB (1) capacity | (1) 1TB = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less, depending on operating environment.
• Enterprise-class reliability and performance
• 5-year limited warranty (5) |See Official Western Digital website for warranty details
• 550TB per year workload rating (3) | Workload Rate is defined as the amount of user data transferred to/from the hard drive.
• Up to 2.5 million hours Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)

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