The WD Purple 4TB (WD43PURZ) uses CMR recording.
Live rankings this model belongs to: every 4TB hard drive. Product pages for this part number: WD Purple 4TB WD43PURZ (no current offer) · WD Purple 4TB WD43PURZ (no current offer).
Verified against: WD Purple surveillance hard drive data sheet · Checked
Conventional recording writes tracks side by side without overlap, so a write never forces the drive to rewrite neighbouring data. That makes the WD43PURZ safe for every use including RAID, ZFS, a NAS, and anything with sustained random writes. A rebuild or a resilver on this drive behaves the way the array expects, which is the whole reason the distinction matters. There is no recording-technology reason to avoid this drive for any workload.
| Model number | WD43PURZ |
| Brand | WD |
| Family | WD Purple |
| Capacity | 4TB |
| Form factor | 3.5" |
| Rotational speed | — |
| Cache | 256 MB |
| Recording technology | CMR |
| Workload rate | 180 TB/year |
| Warranty | 3 years |
| Status | Current |
| Replaced by | — |
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It is CMR, per WD Purple surveillance hard drive data sheet - WD's documentation for this exact part number - which also rates it at 180TB/year workload; its closest tracked rival at this capacity is the ST4000VX007.
Yes: WD Purple surveillance hard drive data sheet states CMR for the WD43PURZ, and conventional recording means a write never forces neighbouring tracks to be rewritten, so rebuilds and resilvers behave normally. Check the workload rating and warranty for your duty cycle separately.