Welcome to Toshiba’s HDD Innovation Lab, the premier destination for innovative storage solutions tailored for IT, storage, and security professionals. Located in Düsseldorf, our modern facility offers a comprehensive suite of testing and evaluation services to customers and partners in Europe and the Middle East. The lab is dedicated to evaluating HDD configurations for large-scale applications, including network-attached storage (NAS), surveillance systems, and cloud storage.

Expert testing for advanced HDD based storage systems

Our experts support the HDD evaluation based on your specific requirements. We have invested in a state-of-the-art platform for Proof-of-Concept activities, so you can experience the performance of your unique system. The lab’s key feature is its ability to conduct comprehensive benchmarking across diverse setups, ensuring you find the best solution for your needs. We bring together all essential components for benchmarking diverse HDD storage configurations, including different servers, JBoDs (Just a Bunch of Disks), chassis, controllers, cables, and software for operating systems.

What we offer to our business partners:

  • Performance Benchmarking: Compare different setups to refine performance and efficiency.
  • Versatile Software: Use diverse operating systems and storage software for flexible testing.
  • Comprehensive Component Library: Access a wide range of servers, JBoDs, and storage devices.
  • Dedicated Demonstrations: Experience the capabilities of Toshiba’s HDDs and storage solutions first-hand.
  • Loan Sample Programs: Access Toshiba HDDs for self-evaluation and testing.
  • Detailed Reporting: Receive comprehensive reports on testing results, configurations, and recommendations.

Your benefits:

  • Expert Support: Benefit from our team’s deep technical knowledge and personalized guidance.
  • Higher Customer Satisfaction: Reduce reliability risks through rigorous testing.
  • Enhance System Reliability: Ensure best performance
  • Improve Storage Efficiency: Maximize storage capacity and utilization.
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    Lab Report

    Lab Report: QSAN XCubeNXT “XN5124D” Unified Storage and Toshiba 22TB Nearline SAS HDD

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    Lab Report: How do Toshiba HDDs perform in NVR environments?

    Introduction Seamless and error-free operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week is what customers expect when they opt for a surveillance monitoring system. Modern surveillance solutions are heavily reliant upon Network Video Recorders (NVRs) to manage and record the incoming video streams from IP cameras. To get the best results out of the data stored – in order…

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    Article

    HDD Outlook 2024: Technologies and Trends

    Hard disk drives (HDDs) are a tried and trusted data storage technology that has stood the test of time. Critical benefits such as high capacities and low cost per capacity unit mean they provide an excellent foundation for data storage strategies in various industries and applications such as data centres, surveillance, gaming, and cloud computing. So, what does the future…

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    Lab Report

    Lab Report: Achieving 1.2 petabytes of storage for the media industry

    Introduction Streaming services have revolutionized the way that people access entertainment and factual information. Ensuring that consumers can access content online wherever and whenever they like requires a significant amount of reliable data storage. When considering the storage and access of decentralized content from all over the world to enable flawless workflows in a multi-cloud environment, the Hard Disk Drive…

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    Whitepaper

    What is the best RAID configuration for 4 Drives?

    RAID systems are popular: companies, small business and private individuals use them for their individual use cases to protect valuable data from storage media failures and for the additional benefits they offer. These may include cost-effectiveness, enhanced performance over the single Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and increased resiliency, depending on the RAID configuration you choose. RAID stands for Redundant Array…

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    Lab Report

    Lab Report: Supermicro JBOD “947SE2C-R1K66JBOD”

    Top-loaded HDD enclosures with 60+ HDDs are becoming more and more popular, as they serve the need storing more and more data on smaller rack- and datacenter footprint. Drives are inserted from the top into an array of several rows of HDDs conveniently. Still due to this construction, all such enclosures face the same maintenance challenge: Installing drives as well…

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    Mixing Hard Disk Drives of 512 Byte native and 512 Byte emulated Block Size in RAID Systems

    Introduction Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) for NAS and Enterprise Storage come in two different flavors of block size. Traditionally, the internal block size of HDDs is 512 byte, with 512 byte also used at the external interface. This technology is called 512 byte native, or 512n. Newer HDD models use an internal block size of 4k byte for higher storage…

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    Article

    Reliable Storage Systems That Meet Expectations of High-Resolution Video Data Streams

    By Irina Chan, Toshiba Electronics Europe  Video surveillance systems are incorporating larger numbers of cameras, with higher resolutions. Consequently, the volumes of data being generated are growing all the time. This ongoing trend means that the storage media being used have to satisfy significantly increased demands. Not only is this true when it comes to storage capacity, but also in…

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    The most important specifications of modern hard disks

    MTTF, UER, MAMR – What’s behind the most important HDD specifications? HDDs deliver high storage capacities at low cost, but the various HDD models available on the market differ, sometimes quite considerably. What is actually behind specifications like MTTF and AFR? What does the UER mean? And how are SMR and MAMR drives distinguished from each other? The following article…

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    Taking Advantage of SMR based HDDs in Surveillance Camera Systems

    Ongoing expansion of the surveillance camera market is leading to more intense demand for large-capacity, highperformance hard disk drives (HDDs). These HDDs are being used in numerous forms of video recorder hardware. In response to this rising market demand, Toshiba has strengthened its S300 series of surveillance optimized HDDs. Available in 4TB and 6TB capacity options, they are based on…

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    Case Study

    Case Study – Focusing on the emerging IaaS industry – Worldstream

    With state-of-the-art facilities covering over 5,000 square meters and 15,000 servers in operation, Worldstream is a major player in the IaaS market. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company serves an international customer base that includes major financial institutions, as well as established brands in the industrial, broadcasting, enterprise, and agricultural sectors.

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    HDD Outlook 2023: The Trends Set to Emerge

    There is no doubt that hard disk drives are still proving to be an important data storage medium.

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