Toshiba introduces 6TB monitoring hard drives for DVR and NVR platforms

     Toshiba Electronic Components and Storage Corporation announced the launch of the DT02-V series of surveillance hard drives, a new series designed for digital Video recorder (DVR) and Network Video Recorder (NVR) platforms.

     Compared to the previous MD04ABA-V series, the new series utilizes the latest magnetic recording technology to achieve high magnetic recording density to help improve reliability. The DT02-V new family has a capacity of up to 6TB 1 and can support up to 32 high-resolution camera streams 2 for leading DVR and NVR monitoring platforms configured with up to eight drive slots.

     Shuji Takaoka, General Manager, Storage Products Sales & Marketing Division, Toshiba Electronic Components & Storage Devices, said: "Our latest DT02-V family of monitoring hard drives offers up to 6TB of storage capacity and is designed for use on leading monitoring DVR and NVR platforms. It also offers multiple capacity options while increasing the reliability of high-resolution monitoring video streams."

     The DT02-V series is capable of 24/7 reliable operation with 600,000 load/unload cycles at hard drive temperatures up to 40ᵒC, with a rated workload3 of 180TB per year. Other features include SATA 6Gbit/s interface 4 with 128MiB cache to help minimize frame loss; The powerful mechanical platform is designed to achieve 1 million hours of MTTF5.