Toshiba says HDDs will continue to be critical in the video surveillance environment

Hard disk drives will continue to have a strong predominance in 2024, As he reveals, Toshiba, And this will be very relevant in the video surveillance environment, where there is a great need for storage, Given the trend towards video streams 24×7 higher quality.

Toshiba Electronics Europe ensures the predominance of Disk Drives (HDD) In 2024 compared to other storage solutions given the constant evolution of this technology to offer the best capacity/cost balance and the continuous demand for greater capacity and sustainability.

One of the sectors in which Toshiba confirms the relevance of hard drives is video surveillance, where there is a great need for storage given the trend towards 24 video streams×7 higher quality and backed by affordable and reliable hardware.

In this area, historically, when a storage item was required within the chamber itself, It was usually a flash component, while the central recorder often consisted of one or more HDDs.

Toshiba notes that, Currently, in certain parts of the world such as Central Europe, where the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) state that only a small amount of recording can be retained for a short period of time, system vendors may consider using a low-capacity SSD for that central storage as well, as that small capacity means achieving cost parity with HDDs in specific scenarios.

However, He cautions that such a configuration does not cover the challenges of write-intensive operations. That's because high abort cycles where data can only be retained for a few days would quickly wear out a flash component, while no such restrictions exist for hard drives.

Toshiba Highlights Other Issues Benefits of HDDs in the world of video surveillance: Its high sequential write performance, making them the obvious solution for the sequential and sustained nature of video recording and its non-volatility, allowing them to retain data even when the power goes out. This capability is essential in video surveillance systems that require data integrity and preservation in the event of power outages or unexpected system outages.

Like this, notes that efforts in engineering and materials science HDDs have succeeded in providing more Terabytes in the same form factor, with the same energy consumption and at approximately the same cost, Especially critical aspect. In fact, Today, Hard drives maintain a cost-per-capacity difference over flash storage of about a factor of seven.

As for the other key factors that future-proof HDD storage, The first is the continued demand for more capacity and the second is that the increase in capacity is technically achievable. To that end,, Toshiba invests in R+D to deliver incremental advances and will continue to do so as long as demand for higher capacity hard drives remains.

In this regard., has recently released its MG10F hard drive from 22 TB with Conventional Magnetic Recording Technology (Cmr) that takes advantage of the design of 10 helium-sealed discs to allow for an increase in the capacity of the 10% compared to the MG10 series with the same form factor of 3,5 Inch.

Sustainability in Data Centers

Moreover, Toshiba recalls that data centers continue to rely on hard drives as the predominant storage medium in hyperscale facilities that provide cloud services and, in this environment, el aumento de capacidad de 2TB es un avance significativo, as having higher capacities in the same form factor offers substantial advantages in terms of rack space in urban locations that often have limited space.

He also points out that it is becoming increasingly common for data centers to combine individual hard drives using redundant array techniques of independent disks (raid) to create bigger, faster storage solutions. In fact, It's already common to see 24 HDDs integrated into a housing unit, and Toshiba expects this figure to reach between 60 And 120 HDD.

According to Toshiba, the predominance of HDD in Data Centers Is Also Driven by the Demand for Sustainability, Discs make a difference in two ways. Regarding energy efficiency, the need to spin a storage disk at a certain speed and access it at a specific speed, The laws of physics usually establish 10 Watts Per Unit.

Faced with this limit, Helium technology launched several years ago reduced that figure to about 100 percent. 7-8 and the only way to achieve greater energy efficiency is to introduce more capacity for those watts. 10 Watts, This is a goal that recent progress has helped to achieve. In addition, data center engineers continue to investigate the optimized use of HDDs in terms of power, mainly through idle or off modes.

Inside sustainability, Toshiba notes that components of the first wave of HDD deployments in cloud data centers are nearing the end of their lifecycle and need to be decommissioned. In this context, as they are composed of aluminum and copper, Hard drives are much easier to recycle versus materials like printed circuit boards (PCB), Chips & Plastics. As a result, Toshiba is confident that HDDs will be an integral part of the circular economy based on services such as recycling and reuse.

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