News - Toshiba launches super-rugged HDDs designed for 24/7 use

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Continuous-use drives will keep going all day and night in the toughest of environments.

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SSDs kinda make this drive redundant. :\

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Originally Posted by aidanjt

SSDs kinda make this drive redundant. :\

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Maybe mechanical drives have better longevity? An SSD writing all day (ie surveillance system) might be more likely to fail/hit its MTBF.

Just a guess.

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Originally Posted by BullDogg

Maybe mechanical drives have better longevity? An SSD writing all day (ie surveillance system) might be more likely to fail/hit its MTBF.

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80GB isn't exactly much space for high resolution surveillance systems. And if you fill the disk I don't think you'll be wanting to wipe it until the old data can be archived, so it's not exactly going to be a mass of write fills per day.

It just doesn't make sense to me. :\

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Originally Posted by aidanjt

80GB isn't exactly much space for high resolution surveillance systems. And if you fill the disk I don't think you'll be wanting to wipe it until the old data can be archived, so it's not exactly going to be a mass of write fills per day.

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Good point, well made. To be honest, I'm not sure what the answer is, but I'm sure there's a market for these kind of things. Black boxes perhaps?

Now I'm just trying to think of anything where you might need to survive acceleration of 2.5km/s^2 while writing data. Rail gun, perhaps? :P

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Originally Posted by aidanjt

80GB isn't exactly much space for high resolution surveillance systems. And if you fill the disk I don't think you'll be wanting to wipe it until the old data can be archived, so it's not exactly going to be a mass of write fills per day.

It just doesn't make sense to me. :\

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Makes sence to me if you stick it in an external enclosure...

I'm with the previous posters, can't see the need for these drives. CCTV? Most of it them are hard drives anyway. And a lot of HiRes CCTV systems don't actually continuous video, but take and record still images and then play them back as slow video.

And I've seen 9GB UWSCSI drives still in active use on UNIX DB's so longevity isn't a problem with HDs anyway.

Blackboxes? Nope most are specialised steel wire that is used as the magnetic medium, and modern ones are solid state anyway.

You can pay a LOT of money for a hard drive built to very tight tolerances, and I would imagine the companies that buy them would be a lot happier buying proven tech than switching to SSD. I guess it depends on how long you want it to last. "I need a drive that'll run for 10 years in this environment" or "I want a drve that'll survive an omgxplosion and be used for 20 minutes", in this case the latter is probably a better case for switching to SSD.