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High-Capacity Storage For AI Video Systems

Too much AI video data? This storage handles many cameras, records nonstop, and delivers results for real-time analysis.

Toshiba Launches S300 AI Surveillance HDD for AI-Driven Video Applications
Toshiba Launches S300 AI Surveillance HDD for AI-Driven Video Applications

Organizations using AI-driven surveillance face major challenges like massive volumes of video data, continuous recording demands, and the need for fast, reliable AI analysis. Standard storage solutions can struggle with these workloads, slowing video retrieval and real-time insights.

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Toshiba’s S300 AI HDDs are designed to solve these problems. They provide high-capacity, high-performance storage for modern AI video applications, supporting continuous recording and large-scale data processing. The drives handle up to 64 high-resolution camera streams plus 32 additional AI streams, ensuring fast access to video for accurate real-time analytics.

Available in capacities from 8TB to 24TB, S300 AI fits large AI video analytics servers, centralized surveillance systems, video archives, recovery infrastructure, and multi-bay RAID setups. Its design balances scale, speed, and endurance, making it suitable for sectors such as transportation, manufacturing, smart city projects, healthcare and nursing care, finance, and logistics.

Built for 24/7 operation in mission-critical environments, the drives have a 550TB annual workload rating and up to 2.5 million hours mean time to failure. Toshiba backs them with a 5-year limited warranty, highlighting their reliability and durability.

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By handling extra random access demands and high AI workloads, S300 AI ensures smooth, continuous recording, fast data retrieval, and efficient processing of the vast video and analytical data generated by AI-enabled surveillance systems.

“The surveillance market is rapidly evolving, with AI analytics driving new requirements for storage performance, capacity, and reliability,” said Koji Sakamoto, Senior Director of Storage Products Sales & Marketing Division at Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation. “With S300 AI, Toshiba continues to expand and tailor its HDD range to meet these demands — delivering higher capacities, enhanced performance, and enterprise-grade durability purpose-built for AI workloads.”

Nidhi Agarwal
Nidhi Agarwal
Nidhi Agarwal is a Senior Technology Journalist at EFY with a deep interest in embedded systems, development boards and IoT cloud solutions.

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