New Western Digital Purple microSD card to be on sale soon starting from RM99

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Today, Western Digital Corp has announced a new Purple microSD card product coming soon at the end of April. It will be available across all major IT malls and WD official stores at Lazada, 11Street and Shopee as well at a recommended price of RM99 (32G) and RM159 (64G).

Designed in mind for data demands of modern surveillance system installers and integrators, the card is built to support a wide range of video resolutions and surveillance video recording implementations, additional highlights of the new microSD card include:

  • Robust Endurance for Continuous Recording: Supports up to 1000 PE Cycles
  • Card Health Status Functionality for Easy Card Maintenance: Compatible with cameras, a unique health monitor offers reporting capabilities to provide users and system installers valuable information, including the card’s endurance and capacity status, enabling predictive maintenance and taking the “guesswork” out of when to service the card.
  • High Performance for Next-Generation Video: Offers speeds of up to 80 MB/s sequential read and 50 MB/s sequential write and supports Speed Class 10 and UHS Speed Class 1.1
  • Trusted Video Capture in Wide Range of Climates: Designed for use in temperatures ranging from -25°C to 85°C, it enables reliable video capture indoors and outdoors.
  • High Capacity to Capture and Preserve Video if Connection to Network Connection is Lost: Offered in capacities up to 64GB.

“From Big Data, to Fast Data, to data-centric applications such as surveillance, the volume, speed, variety and value of data continues to exponentially grow and transform. Leveraging our proven capabilities in consumer and industrial memory card innovation, the Western Digital Purple microSD card is the ideal solution for mainstream commercial surveillance data at the edge,” said Christopher Bergey, Vice President of Embedded and Integrated Solutions at Western Digital.

“Whether capturing 4K video, used in AI-enabled cameras, or part of a larger data system supporting ‘smart surveillance’ applications, this rugged and intelligent card delivers ‘surveillance-class’ endurance and tremendous performance to enable trusted video capture in some of the harshest conditions. When combined with our popular Purple and Ultrastar hard disk drives (HDDs) to support data preservation and real-time analytics, Western Digital now provides the industry’s most comprehensive offering for surveillance data, from the edge to the core.” he concluded.

For more information on the Purple microSD card and the complete Western Digital Purple surveillance portfolio, you can check it out at their website right here and stay tuned for WD news at TechNave.com.