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

Introduction Virtualization, containerization, surveillance, back up – for such workloads, modern enterprises and businesses need large-scale, multi-functional storage more than ever. Performance is key here and, with a view to this, the Toshiba team started a new test in its laboratory using the next-generation Toshiba Enterprise Capacity MG-Series HDDs, the 22TB SAS 12Gb/s model MG10SFA22TE, …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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