[SOLVED] WD Red or Purple for Local Network Storage?

[Walley Nguyen]

Hi there!

We are a small video editing team so we plan on using an old server PC: HP Server HP ML110 G6 as our local storage. We mainly store, archive and sometimes access the footage for rendering purposes.

As I have seen from some articles and videos, the Red one is for NAS and Purple is for Surveillance camera. Both sounds reliable for long term usage. So we would like to know whether we should go with RED or PURPLE for building this local network?

Hope to learn from you guys. Thank you very much!

 

[USAFRet]

Seeing as the Red is specifically designed for "network storage"....that would seem to be the default choice.

 

[SoNic67]

Definitely Red for storage.

Purple is designed for continuous writes.