One thing we can all be sure of is that surveillance installations need to store large amounts of video footage. And as the resolutions of cameras improve, the size of the storage required also increases.

Using just any hard drive in a DVR can cause catastrophic consequences and is often the single point of failure in security systems, bringing the entire system crashing down.

Storage for surveillance is a necessity, but the right components can make all the difference in the total cost of ownership and reliability of the solution.

Hi-Tech Security Solutions spoke to two industry vendors about two security-related issues experienced in the entertainment and hospitality sector.

More than 20 retailers record and store video footage on WD Purple Surveillance hard drives.

The right surveillance storage solution should offer high performance, efficiency and capacity that has been tested in harsh surveillance environments.

Economies of scale are not always economical. Avoiding the challenges of commoditisation in the digital surveillance industry.

WD’s Red Pro 5 and 6 TB drives offer an enhanced design and 128 MB cache to deliver data transfer rates of 214 megabytes per second (MB/s).

WD has introduced WD Purple NV, a purpose-built line of 3.5-inch, high-capacity 4 TB and 6 TB hard drives for the greater demands of scalable network video recorder (NVR) surveillance systems.