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Toshiba reveal NAS designed 10TB HDD

Shaun Grimley | Dec 8, 2017 7:31 AM CST

Toshiba have been busy in regards to their high-end storage range, with recently announcing a 10TB HDD dedicated for surveillance applications and their new XG5-P SSD. For all those NAS enthusiasts out there, Toshiba haven't forgotten about you and have released the MN06ACA10T, a 10TB hard drive in a 3.5" form factor.

Toshiba reveal NAS designed 10TB HDD

"Our new 10TB MN06 Series provides excellent NAS-class performance and durability," said Scott Wright, Director of HDD Product Marketing at Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. "Our exclusive conventional mechanics delivers real value to work-groups and cloud storage architects who utilize established network-attached storage technologies. The MN06ACA10T 10TB includes RV compensation technology for optimal performance in multi-drive NAS enclosures and is designed for 24/7 operation."

The MN06AC10T sees a 25% increase in regards to capacity and double the buffer size (256MiB) over its predecessor, the MN05ACA800. Toshiba's dedicated NAS HDD is designed for 24/7 operation and an annual workload of an impressive 180TB transferred. MTTF of 1,000,000 hours, and 300,000 load/unload cycles.

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Toshiba reveals new 64-layer 3D UFS storage

Derek Strickland | Nov 29, 2017 7:17 PM CST

Toshiba today announced that it's begun sampling UFS storage based on its high-end 64-layer 3D VNAND memory.

Toshiba reveals new 64-layer 3D UFS storage

Toshiba's new UFS 3D storage lineup has four capacities including 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB, with all of the drives featuring both flash memory and a controller--which manages the drives health--in a standard JEDEC form factor.

The flash drives potentially have a total theoretical interface speed of up to 11.6Gbps, and the sequential read and write speeds of the 64GB option are 900MB/sec and 180MB/sec respectively. Toshiba boasts that the random read and write performance of the new lineup is about 200% and 180% respectively better than previous gen drives.

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Toshiba announce their latest 10TB surveillance HDD

Anthony Garreffa | Nov 28, 2017 10:49 PM CST

Toshiba has just announced their latest surveillance HDD, with the new MD06ACA-V being the latest in a growing line of SV Series 3.5-inch HDDs that Toshiba makes for surveillance applications.

Toshiba announce their latest 10TB surveillance HDD

The new models arrive in up to 10TB, and thanks to higher transfer rates over the MD04ABA-V models, Toshiba says the new drives support up to 64 camera streams. The larger capacity HDDs mixed with the higher speeds on the drive will allow higher resolution surveillance with long-term storage thanks to 10TB models.

Toshiba's new MD06ACA-V is designed for 24/7 streaming operation scenarios like surveillance digital video recorders (SDVR), surveillance network video recorders (SNVR) and Hybrid SDVR. Toshiba taps 7200RPM operation for the new drives, with the 10TB model offering a 58% increase in maximum sustained transfer rates over its predecessor.

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COLORFUL introduce new Plus Series SSD range

Shaun Grimley | Nov 22, 2017 7:39 AM CST

There's a new line of SSD's about to hit the market from COLORFUL, the new PLUS Series SSD. The COLORFUL Plus Series SSD combines the latest in 3D TLC NAND Flash technology and a new SMI SM2258XT controller that is able to deliver up to 640GB capacity and deliver some great results that we've come to expect from COLORFUL.

COLORFUL introduce new Plus Series SSD range

COLORFUL have utilized 3D TLC NAND Flash technology for the Plus Series SSD that has enabled the hardware giants to deliver bigger capacities whilst maintaining long lifespans of the SSD. Backed with BGA NAND Flash, the performance and stability of the SSD is also ensured. Combined with developments in 3D NAND technology, this has enabled new 3D NAND Flash specifications that produce non-standard capacities for the Plus Series SSD, this explains the slightly increased capacities of 160GB, 320GB and 640GB.

Below are benchmarks of the 640GB variant, the SL500.

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Silicon Power reveal the Armor A75 portable hard drive

Shaun Grimley | Nov 10, 2017 4:39 AM CST

Silicon Power have added the A75 portable hard drive to their Armor series, this follows their recent release of the impressive Armor A62 portable hard drive. The Armor A75 is finished in a beautiful aviation-grade aluminium, crowning this slim-portable hard drive the world's thinnest hard drive in its category.

Silicon Power reveal the Armor A75 portable hard drive

To say the A75 is slim is an understatement, the A75 measures 124.4 x 82 x 12.2mm in size, weighs only 169g and is shockproof up to 1.22m. Unfortunately, Silicon Power's latest portable hard drive is only available in 1 and 2 TB variants, but the gorgeous exterior of the A75 more than makes up for the limited capacity when compared to the A62. Other features include USB 3.1 Gen 1, Free SP Widget software and a slim "L" shaped LED status light that can be seen from top and front view.

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Samsung: tight NAND supply to continue in Q4

Derek Strickland | Nov 1, 2017 5:42 PM CDT

Samsung Electronics today announced its third quarter earnings results, affirming that the supply situation for key NAND products will tighten into Q4 and possibly beyond.

Samsung: tight NAND supply to continue in Q4

The financials note that Samsung will continue focusing its memory business more towards higher-end performance chips such as VNAND storage and LPDDR4X memory to serve the increasingly demanding needs of the mobile and datacenter markets. As a result of this shift away from traditional 2D NAND, supply will remain constrained for key products such as Nintendo's new Switch handheld-console hybrid, which uses traditional storage memory.

"Looking ahead to the fourth quarter, the company anticipates tight supply and demand conditions to continue for the Memory Business due to strong demand for servers and mobile devices. For the Memory Business, demand for high-density, high-performance NAND will increase, as the need for larger data capacity in servers and mobile devices grows," the report states.

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Seagate introduce SkyHawk AI HDD for AI-enabled surveillance

Shaun Grimley | Nov 1, 2017 9:48 AM CDT

Seagate have introduced the first HDD created specifically for artificial intelligence enabled video surveillance, the Seagate SkyHawk AI hard disk drive. Building on Seagate's 10-year track record of optimized surveillance performance, The SkyHawk AI provides unparalleled bandwidth and processing power for data-intensive workloads, with the ability to simultaneously analyze and record footage from multiple HD cameras.

Seagate introduce SkyHawk AI HDD for AI-enabled surveillance

"The use of AI technology in surveillance is steadily increasing - both in the edge and backend installations such as retail fronts and large city traffic management. Seagate has led the surveillance storage market since its early days, a decade ago, by delivering industry leading HDD products that have enabled more than 5X increase in exabytes during this time period," said Sai Varanasi, vice president product line management at Seagate Technology. "We are excited to introduce smart, purpose-built SkyHawk AI solutions that expand the design space for our customers and partners, allowing them to implement next-generation deep learning and video analytics applications."

With forecasted growth from 27.6 million shipments in 2016 for video surveillance hardware, to 126 million in 2021, Seagate are providing the ideal solution for computational workloads that typically accompany AI work streams. SkyHawk AI can provide high throughput and enhanced caching to deliver low latency and excellent random read performance.

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Micron announces microSD cards built for video surveillance

Anthony Garreffa | Oct 31, 2017 11:33 PM CDT

Micron has just announced a slew of new microSD cards that have been designed for the video surveillance, with the new industrial microSD cards coming in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB capacities.

Micron announces microSD cards built for video surveillance

The new industrial microSD cards are designed for both commercial and enterprise surveillance, with Micron working with Shenzhen Security and Protection Industry Association (SSPIA) and China channel partner, Jinyu Global. Most of the microSD cards on the market aren't built to be used 24/7, but Micron's new industrial microSD cards have been designed for higher endurance and reliability with claims of mean time between failure of 3 million hours.

Micron has tapped their impressive 64-tier 3D-NAND technology, with storage densities of 32GB/64GB/128GB/256GB, with the 32GB and 64GB models available now, and the 128GB and 256GB models to begin being shipped in volume amounts in Q2 2018.

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Intel launches its next-gen Optane SSD 900P SSD

Jon Coulter | Oct 27, 2017 5:30 AM CDT

Today Intel is launching their first retail 3D XPoint based SSD - the Intel Optane SSD 900P Series. Unlike Optane Memory, which is a cache SSD, the Intel Optane 900P Series are full blown SSDs and will function as such. Initially, the 900P series will be offered in two capacities and two form factors - U.2 and Add-In-Card (AIC).

Intel launches its next-gen Optane SSD 900P SSD

At this time, the U.2 form factor is only available at 280GB. The AIC form factor is available at both 280GB and 480GB capacity points. It is important to note that unlike flash based SSDs, Optane SSDs don't rely on capacity for higher performance. The 280GB 900P is just as fast as the 480GB 900P.

3D XPoint (Intel Optane) memory media has many advantages over NAND flash memory media. Random performance at low queue depths can be as much as 7X better than the fastest flash-based NVMe SSDs. What this means in the real-world is very well illustrated by the following:

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Seagate announce its new Enterprise Datasphere Fleet

Shaun Grimley | Oct 18, 2017 9:25 AM CDT

Seagate has introduced their newly branded Enterprise Datasphere Fleet, precision-engineered enterprise storage solutions aimed to provide the highest levels of security technology. The Datasphere Fleet includes the cornerstone of Seagate's hard drive lineup, the Exos family, and the world's fastest and highest capacity hard drive, the Nytro SSD range.

Seagate announce its new Enterprise Datasphere Fleet

Seagate's Enterprise Datasphere Fleet includes the recently announced Seagate Secure, ironclad security features that are integrated into the hard drive to provide un-paralleled levels of protection of your data.

The Exos family are purpose-built for a multitude of applications, workloads and storage tiers to maximize your storage efficiency. Exos are able to deliver top performance and high capacity for enterprise data centers that provides efficient and cost-effective solution for data centers.

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