82 Saturday 08.09.2012 theibcdaily Solid state the way forward
Toshiba Market Engineer for new media, Rob Belle-Isle, says the company’s technology potentially replaces RAID Opinion
With offices in four countries, Servicesat says that it has experience in providing solutions in places as demanding as Iraq, Afghanistan or Africa, places as remote as Iceland, and even places as technologically challenging as Western Europe! Currently, Servicesat has more than 3500 terminals deployed over six satellites, over 50 countries. At IBC, the company is focusing on V-Sat antennas and highlighting the services it offers, including equipment and professional guidance. 4.A61a
High bandwidth file-based contribution for video quality is the new paradigm. But funnily enough the workflow still begins the same way, with spinning disks. Today we really need to consider the expense and risks of our current architecture: Raiding storage, bundling drives together to get more bandwidth, putting media assets onto volatile spinning drives for safe keeping, and using spinning drives at a high power load cost. So, have we really moved ourselves forward? This year, Toshiba presents the world’s first SSD (Solid State Drive) server that will stream media directly from the drives. No CPU buffering, or ‘CPU offloads’ are required to playout media files. Toshiba’s SSD is based on a combination of high-capacity SLC (Single level cell) and MLC (Multi-Level Cell) storage chips. Offering access to fast & safe playout files.Toshiba believes it’s time to take a hard look at your
and MTBF (mean time between failure rates).
Rob Belle-Isle: ‘Toshiba is the inventor of solid state’
technical highlights, power- cooling costs, price and reliability, by replacing or augmenting your hard drive space. Solid State will truly distinguish the difference in price, power, speed and reliability against hard disk drives.
At IBC2012 we are
highlighting new energy-aware media playout servers and IPTV/OTT streaming servers in such solid state configurations. Customers can see and learn all about the new value differences: Error Correction versus RAID; media access speed; space;
Colleagues can come see how solid state differs from hard drive media architecture: • Raid for storage is no longer needed
• Adding drives to obtain bandwidth is no longer needed • Spinning disk to access media is no longer needed
• Storing media onto sensitive moving parts is no longer needed
• Paying for power loads for constant spinning disks access is no longer needed • New this year: No CPU buffering will be needed For more information, please stop by our stand and learn more about SSD NAND MLC /SLC solid state memory configurations and compare for yourselves. 9.B12