We supply and install Western Digital NAS appliances and purpose-built enterprise hard drives across Dubai and the UAE — from WD My Cloud Pro for business file sharing and backup, to WD Purple surveillance drives pre-qualified for 24/7 CCTV recording, and WD Gold drives for demanding server and enterprise storage workloads.
Not all hard drives are the same. A desktop WD Blue or WD Green drive installed in a CCTV DVR or a NAS will fail significantly earlier than a drive purpose-built for continuous operation — and in Abu Dhabi and Dubai's high ambient temperature environments, operating a desktop drive in a 24/7 recording device is a common and costly mistake. Western Digital's product line is segmented by workload: WD Purple and WD Purple Pro for surveillance recording, WD Red and WD Red Pro for NAS, WD Gold for enterprise server storage, and WD Ultrastar for data centre deployments.
We supply the correct WD drive variant for each application — and we install them in the correct systems. Whether it is pre-filling a Synology NAS before deployment, replacing failed drives in an existing DVR or NVR, or supplying a complete WD My Cloud Pro NAS installation with drives configured and ready to use, we handle the full end-to-end process.
WD My Cloud Pro PR2100 (2-bay) and PR4100 (4-bay) — Western Digital's own NAS appliances for business file sharing and cloud backup. Running WD OS 5. Built-in Plex Media Server support. Remote access via My Cloud web app. Simpler setup and more consumer-friendly management interface than Synology — suitable for small businesses and creative teams who need shared storage without dedicated IT management.
WD Red Pro drives (2TB–22TB) purpose-built for NAS enclosures with 1–24 drive bays operating in always-on SMB/enterprise NAS environments. NASware 3.0 firmware optimised for RAID recovery and vibration tolerance in multi-drive NAS chassis. 5-year warranty. CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) technology — not SMR — ensuring reliable RAID rebuild performance. Our standard recommendation for NAS drive population in Synology and QNAP deployments.
WD Purple (up to 14TB) and WD Purple Pro (up to 18TB) drives built for 24/7 CCTV recording environments. Optimised firmware handles the write-heavy, continuous sequential write pattern of CCTV recording without the buffer overflows and error-recovery delays that cause desktop drives to drop frames. AllFrame 4K AI support for AI video analytics DVR/NVR. The correct drive for every Hikvision DVR, Dahua NVR, and Synology Surveillance Station deployment we install.
WD Gold drives (1TB–20TB) for enterprise server and storage array deployments. 2.5M hours MTBF, 550TB/year workload rating, 5-year warranty. The recommended drive for servers where the workload is intensive and reliability is paramount — Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant, and server-grade NAS deployments where a drive failure has immediate business impact.
WD Ultrastar HC series (up to 26TB EAMR) for organisations operating on-premise data centre storage. Enterprise-grade performance and reliability for SAN/NAS storage arrays, capacity-optimised storage servers, and backup appliances requiring maximum drive density per rack unit. Also available in SAS interface for SAN deployments requiring full SAS dual-path redundancy.
WD Red SA500 NAS SSD for all-flash NAS deployments requiring maximum IOPS for database or VM storage workloads. WD Blue SN580 and SN770 NVMe SSDs for workstation and laptop upgrades. WD Green and Blue SATA SSDs for laptop and desktop upgrades replacing HDDs. We supply and install WD SSDs as part of server, workstation, and laptop service upgrades across Dubai offices.
We begin by understanding the drive's application — how many write hours per day, the ambient temperature of the installation location, the number of simultaneous read/write streams, and the NAS or DVR enclosure it will run in. We then recommend the appropriate WD product line and capacity. This prevents the most common failure scenario we encounter in Dubai: standard desktop drives installed in 24/7 CCTV recording devices that fail within 12–18 months of deployment.
Every drive supplied is verified using WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic before installation — confirming zero reallocated sectors, zero pending sectors, and pass status on the extended SMART test. This baseline test means any drive manufacturing defect is identified before the drive is placed into service, and before it has been entrusted with your business data or surveillance recordings.
Where drives are being installed into a NAS or RAID array, the full RAID initialisation and verification process is completed at our bench before delivery — or on-site in the case of large rackmount NAS deployments. A RAID build on 18TB drives takes several hours; we ensure this is completed and verified before the unit is put into production service, not left running overnight after handover.
Hard drives operating at sustained temperatures above 40°C have significantly reduced MTTF (Mean Time To Failure). In Dubai office environments — where server room air conditioning may be marginal, or where DVR equipment is installed in false ceilings or comms cabinets without adequate cooling — drive operating temperature can easily exceed safe limits for desktop-class drives.
WD Purple Pro and WD Gold drives are rated to operate continuously at higher ambient temperatures, and their firmware manages thermal throttling intelligently. Specifying the correct drive for the environment is not optional — it is the baseline for reliable storage infrastructure in the UAE.
WD Purple or Purple Pro drives in every Hikvision DVR, Dahua NVR, and Synology Surveillance Station deployment. Correct capacity specified based on camera count, resolution, frame rate, and retention period (typically 30–90 days for Dubai commercial premises).
WD Red Pro drives pre-installed in Synology DiskStation NAS units configured with RAID 5 or RAID 6 before delivery. All drives SMART-tested. RAID build completed and verified. NAS ready for DSM configuration on arrival at client site.
Failed WD Gold or Ultrastar drives in Dell PowerEdge or HP ProLiant servers replaced with matching or upgraded capacity WD enterprise drives. RAID rebuild monitored to completion. SMART baseline for new drive recorded for ongoing monitoring.
WD Blue or SN770 NVMe SSD upgrades for existing Dubai office PCs and laptops — replacing slow HDDs and dramatically improving boot time, application response, and user productivity. OS and data cloned from original drive so no reinstallation required.
WD My Cloud Pro or WD Red Pro-populated Synology NAS as the on-premise backup target for Veeam, Acronis, or Synology Active Backup — providing fast on-premise backup and restore with WD drives rated for the continuous write workload that backup jobs generate.
High-capacity WD Red Pro-filled NAS for video production houses and photography studios in Dubai — fast Gigabit or 10GbE shared storage accessible from all workstations simultaneously. WD Ultrastar for high-throughput multi-stream 4K editing workflows.
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