Trends & Insights
Welcome to the Trends & Technology page of Toshiba. Toshiba is renowned the world over for 50 years of leading innovation – and the power behind its hard drive solutions is no exception. Our enterprise-level developments meet the industry standards with proven reliability. Designed for high capacity and excellent performance, you can be sure that Toshiba’s wealth of experience in hard drives is at work in your storage system. Read more about our technologies in our whitepapers and articles to get to the heart of our innovations.
HDD or SSD for storage systems?
One of the hottest topics within technology circles is when to move from established technology to the newer version, taking into account the costs and any possible risks. IT professionals are engaged in making this decision, determining whether (and when) SSDs offer better performance than the older, but lower cost, HDD technology. As one of the leading drive manufacturers with significant experience in both HDD and SSD technology, Toshiba Electronics Europe set out to investigate the question as to whether an array of 10krpm HDDs can offer a better performance solution than Enterprise SSDs and, if so, under what conditions?
Testing replacement of drives in hardware-based RAID systems
Hard disc drives are becoming more reliable, often achieving a Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) of up to 2.5 million hours and carrying a warranty of up to five years. In practice, this means that a storage system comprising 1000 identical hard drives should only expect two or three drives to fail during one year within the warranty period.
