To use or not to use in a Desktop...that is a question, for the WD Purple

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I have joined JUST to answer this question as I’ve been asking this wihtout an answer for a while as well. I’ve bought a purple a few days back and saw this error correction issue After i bought it so I’ve been researching for quite a while. Here’s the links to pretty much everything i could get my hands on

WD40PURX for PC

I had a closer look at the Purple technical manual. Section 4.0 lists those ATA-8 commands that are supported by the drive. It makes reference to the “D1699 ATA8-ACS specification”. AT Attachment 8 - ATA/ATAPI Command Set (ATA8-ACS) - T13: http://www.t13.org/documents/uploadeddocuments/docs2008/d1699r6a-ata8-acs.pdf Section 4.23 of the ATA spec states … Devices that implement the Streaming feature set shall implement the GPL feature set and the following commands: a) CONFIGURE STREAM b) REA…

https://archive.techarp.com/showarticlefdb0.html?artno=826&pgno=0
https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26777&mobile=mobile
https://archive.techarp.com/showarticlefdb0.html?artno=826&pgno=0

Long story short, IT’S PERFECTLY SAFE TO USE PURPLE FOR DESKTOP. Streaming ATA commands are just an extension to the normal SATA commands and only comes into play with CCTVs. On desktops it performs pretty much the same as any other HDD, with possibly lower performance, but with added features like RAID support.