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==History==
==History==
The Purple family was first introduced in 2014.<ref name="pcworld-purplehdd">{{cite web |title=WD says its new Purple hard drives are optimized for 24/7 video surveillance |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/2100347/network-storage/wds-new-purple-hard-drives-optimized-for-24-wd-says-its-new-purple-hard-drives-are-optimized-for-24.html |website=PC World |publisher=IDG |access-date=1 October 2016|date=25 February 2014 }}</ref>
The Purple family was first introduced in 2014.<ref name="pcworld-purplehdd">{{cite web |title=WD says its new Purple hard drives are optimized for 24/7 video surveillance |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/2100347/network-storage/wds-new-purple-hard-drives-optimized-for-24-wd-says-its-new-purple-hard-drives-are-optimized-for-24.html |website=PC World |publisher=IDG |access-date=1 October 2016|date=25 February 2014 }}</ref> In 2018, it was split into a retail and system integrator exclusive family, with retail models receiving a trailing Z on the main model number, as opposed to system integration drives keeping the previous X suffix.


==Current models==
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|[[WDC WD10PURZ-xxBDSYx]]
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|5,400
|64
|[[:Category:Western Digital Marvell TrailUL|TrailUL]]
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|[[WDC WD20PURZ-xxAKKYx]]
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|[[WDC WD23PURZ-xxC5HYx]]
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|5,400
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|[[WDC WD33PURZ-xxBWPYx]]
|3
|2
|5,400
|256
|[[:Category:Western Digital Marvell Venice RP2L|Venice RP2L]]
|2022
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|[[WDC WD34PURZ-xxCPDYx]]
|3
|2
|5,400
|128
|[[:Category:Western Digital Marvell Carmel 2D|Carmel 2D]]
|2025
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|[[WDC WD40PURZ-xxAKKYx]]
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|[[WDC WD43PURZ-xxBWPYx]]
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|2
|5,400
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|[[:Category:Western Digital Marvell Venice RP2L|Venice RP2L]]
|2022
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|[[WDC WD44PURZ-xxCPDYx]]
|4
|2
|5,400
|128
|[[:Category:Western Digital Marvell Carmel 2D|Carmel 2D]]
|2025
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|[[WDC WD62PURZ-xxB3AYx]]
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|2021
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|[[WDC WD82PURZ-xxB2YYx]]
|[[WDC WD64PURZ-xxBWUYx]]
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|3
|5,040
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|Venice RP2L
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|[[WDC WD84PURZ-xxB2YYx]]
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Latest revision as of 12:07, 3 April 2026

Western Digital Purple is a hard drive family created by Western Digital. It is designed specifically for surveillance DVRs and NVRs, and shares some similarity with the earlier AV-GP family. It was spun off into several offshoots, including a mainland China-exclusive family, a variant designed only for system integration and Purple Pro. It competes with Seagate SkyHawk and Toshiba DT01-V, DT02-V and S300.

History[edit | edit source]

The Purple family was first introduced in 2014.[1] In 2018, it was split into a retail and system integrator exclusive family, with retail models receiving a trailing Z on the main model number, as opposed to system integration drives keeping the previous X suffix.

Current models[edit | edit source]

Model Capacity (TB) Density (TB) Spindle speed (RPM) Cache (MiB) Family Year released
WDC WD10PURZ-xxU8XYx 1 1 5,400 64 TrailXLB 2017
WDC WD10PURZ-xxBDSYx 1 1 5,400 64 TrailUL 2021
WDC WD20PURZ-xxAKKYx 2 1.6 5,400 64 Apollo CR 2020
WDC WD22PURZ-xxB4ZYx 2 2 5,400 256 Carmel RP 2021
WDC WD23PURZ-xxC5HYx 2 2 5,400 64 Carmel RP2L 2021
WDC WD30PURZ-xxAKKYx 3 1.6 5,400 64 Apollo CR 2018
WDC WD33PURZ-xxBWPYx 3 2 5,400 256 Venice RP2L 2022
WDC WD34PURZ-xxCPDYx 3 2 5,400 128 Carmel 2D 2025
WDC WD40PURZ-xxAKKYx 4 1.6 5,400 64 Apollo CR 2020
WDC WD42PURZ-xxB4YYx 4 2 5,040 256 Venice RP 2021
WDC WD43PURZ-xxBWPYx 4 2 5,400 256 Venice RP2L 2022
WDC WD44PURZ-xxCPDYx 4 2 5,400 128 Carmel 2D 2025
WDC WD62PURZ-xxB3AYx 6 1.5 5,640 128 Avalon CR 2021
WDC WD63PURZ-xxB4VYx 6 3 5,040 256 Venice RP 2021
WDC WD64PURZ-xxBWUYx 6 3 5,040 256 Venice RP2L 2022
WDC WD84PURZ-xxB2YYx 8 1.6 5,640 128 Avalon C5 2021
WDC WD102PURZ-xxBXPYx 10 1.66 7,200 256 Vela-AX 2019

Former models[edit | edit source]

Model Capacity Density (TB) Spindle speed (RPM) Cache (MiB) SMR? Family Year released Year discontinued
WDC WD05PURX-xxE5EYx 500 GB 1 TB 5,400 64 No TrailXLB 2015 Unknown
WDC WD05PURZ-xxU8XYx 500 GB 1 TB 5,400 64 No TrailXLB 2015 Unknown
WDC WD10PURX-xxD85Yx 1 TB 1 TB 5,400 64 No TrailXLS 2014 2015
WDC WD10PURX-xxE5EYx 1 TB 1 TB 5,400 64 No TrailXLB 2015 Transferred to Purple (China)

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • The 500 GB models in the Purple family are the only Western Digital models whose capacity number is less than 10 (i.e. 05).

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "WD says its new Purple hard drives are optimized for 24/7 video surveillance". PC World. IDG. 25 February 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
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