- The new European European Innovation Laboratory of Toshiba can improve storage technology
- The laboratory offers architecture tests, proof of concept and comparative evaluation configurations
- Toshiba states that the combination of dozens of HDD can increase general performance
Toshiba Electronics Europe has opened a new HDD innovation laboratory in its Düsseldorf site, expanding its storage evaluation services in Europe and the Middle East.
The new installation (already has a smaller in Dubai) is designed to admit customers and partners to optimize the configurations of the hard drive unit for a range of applications, including cloud storage, surveillance systems and NAS environments.
The Toshiba laboratory will focus on evaluating HDD settings for broader IT systems, such as storage area (SAN) networks, providing a space where hardware configurations can be tested and refined. You can evaluate specific client architectures and offer a platform for proof of concept proof and comparative performance evaluation.
Combining hard drives
“This new HDD innovation laboratory represents a significant leap forward in providing customary solutions and advancing HDD technology,” said Rainer Kaese, Senior HDD Business Development manager.
“It demonstrates Toshiba’s commitment to boost the industry forward and support customers and partners with technical experience and resources. We hope to strengthen existing collaborations and explore the future commercial opportunities that the new installation will bring.”
To carry out these evaluations, the laboratory brings together servers, JBODS, chassis, controllers, cables and a variety of software tools. It also includes accurately measuring equipment.
While SSDs have a clear speed advantage over HDD, they are expensive and, according to Kaese via Blocks and files“The flash industry cannot manufacture enough capacity to meet the growing demand, and still will not be significant.”
The solution to that problem, Kaese suggested, is to group HDDS.
“We have shown that 60 HDDs in the defined ZFS software storage can fill the full speed of a 100gbe network,” he said, he added, “”[We] He found that a typical four HDD configuration (that is, in Soho Soho Soho) can fill the 10gbe networks. 12 HDDS coincide with the 25 GBE of business networks, and 60 HDD would require a 100 -end network speed to unleash the total performance of the many combined HDDs. “
Beyond the technical tests, the HDD innovation laboratory aims to support knowledge exchange. The ideas of the evaluations will go directly to the customers, and Toshiba says that it will carry out its own internal evaluations of its HDD products lines, publishing the findings as white dependents and laboratory reports.
