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WD Purple Pro HDD Spec and Price in France

SATA12TB7200 RPM

Purple Pro is the enterprise surveillance drive: 7200rpm at every capacity, a 512MB cache, and a five-year warranty with a 550TB/year workload rating — WD's top-end camera-array spec, per the product brief. Where the base Purple handles a few streams, Purple Pro is rated for AI-capable NVRs and large camera counts, with sustained throughput up to 267 MB/s. The distinction from the base line is endurance and warranty, and the price difference tracks it.

Current best price

No tracked price — this page compares specifications alone.

Specifications

Capacity
12TB
Interface
SATA
Sequential read
267 MB/s
Sequential write
267 MB/s
Rotation speed
7200 RPM
Form factor
3.5-inch
Cache
512 MB
Warranty
5 years

Capacities

ConfigurationPart numberRotation speedCache
12TBWD122PURP7200 RPM512 MB
22TBWD221PURP7200 RPM512 MB

Guides for this category

How much hard drive you actually needWhat a mechanical drive is still for beside an SSD, how to size it for the pile you are offloading, and why a cheap high-capacity drive can be slow.Portable vs desktop hard driveWhat the enclosure decides between a bus-powered 2.5-inch drive and a mains-powered 3.5-inch one, and why an external listing carries fewer numbers.

What owners and reviewers say

Summarised from 2 source(s), reviewed September 13, 2026. A source is counted only where it names this model exactly. How we track prices

Commonly praised

  • Made for surveillance and broadly comparable to the top pick, with twice the cache at the same capacity.
  • Shares much of the design and feature set of the enterprise line.
  • Owners deploying them in surveillance and NVR systems report reliable, trouble-free operation.
  • Owners consider them good value for the capacity, citing capacity and speed.
  • Packaging and shipping are repeatedly praised.

Commonly criticised

  • Loses out to a rival with an included data-recovery plan, and has a lower sustained transfer rate than the enterprise drive it shares characteristics with.
  • Several owners find the drive loud while writing, noisier than the drives it replaced.
  • One owner reports a unit that damaged a motherboard and had to go through warranty replacement.

Sources behind this summary

Sources

Every spec above was pulled from one of these — a field a source didn't state was left off rather than estimated.