WD Purple Drive Question

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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It looks like the WD AV-GP drives, the WD30EURX for example, have been discontinued. Retail sites mention that the Purple Series replaces the AV-GP series. If so, the information and spec sheets for the Purple drives make no mention of DVR use and talk at length about surveillence system usage. The old AV-GP info sheets did mention DVR applications several times.

Three questions:

  1. Does the Purple series really replace the AV-GP series?

  2. Will the Purple drives work fine in TV DVRs (where the older AV-GP drives did work)?

  3. If so, why are DVR applications not mentioned in the spec and info sheets for the Purple series?

Thanks!

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The WD Purple drives are for surveillance systems.

You can see more information on the link bellow:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/surveillance/

The line suitable for DVR’s is the following:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=170