01 June 2018

Toshiba Electronics Europehas introduced two new internal 3.5-inch hard disk drives (HDD) series for surveillance and video streaming.

The S300 Surveillance hard drive range is designed specifically to meet the needs of the surveillance market, while the V300 Video Streaming line-up is said to support reliable video recording, editing and streaming.

The Surveillance range is available in 4, 6, 8 and 10TB variants – an increase of 2TB over Toshiba’s 2017 lineup. The firm says the drives have a mean time to failure of one million hours, and feature a data buffer up to 256MB as well as its Stable Platter technology. The company says the HDDs support large-scale server systems with the ability to back up to as many as 64 high-resolution video streams.

Additionally, the S300 supports 8+ drive bays, has a workload of up to 180TB per year, and has a maximum data transfer speed of 248MBps. Built-in RV sensors help suppress vibrations in multi HDD platforms.

The V300 Video Streaming drives are said to be optimised for 24/7 operation making them applicable for use in surveillance systems as well as network video recorders, DVRs, etc. Toshiba says the drives reduce energy consumption by up to 25 per cent (compared to its P300 desktop PC HDD model) by using a lower-spin design. It adds that this also cuts heat generation and gives the HDD a longer life.