Phison Launches Specialized SSDs for Video and Surveillance Systems

[GFreeman]

With the advent of high-resolution video and surveillance systems, the demand for stable performance (Sustained Performance) and Power Loss Protection in SSD storage devices continues to rise among video recording equipment and surveillance system integrators. Therefore, Phison Electronics (8299TT), a leading provider of NAND controllers and NAND storage solutions, today announced the launch of specialized SSD storage solutions for video and surveillance systems, including the mid-high-range S12DI and the cost-effective S17T SSD solutions.

With the advent of high-resolution video and surveillance systems, the demand for stable performance (Sustained Performance) and Power Loss Protection in SSD storage devices continues to rise among video recording equipment and surveillance system integrators. Therefore, Phison Electronics (8299TT), a leading provider of NAND controllers and NAND storage solutions, today announced the launch of specialized SSD storage solutions for video and surveillance systems, including the mid-high-range S12DI and the cost-effective S17T SSD solutions.



"From safeguarding buildings, observing remote locations for suspicious behaviors to monitoring CCTV footage, our specialized SSD storage solutions are designed to meet today's era of high-resolution recording," said C.S. Ma, President of Phison Electronics.

The specialized SSD storage solution introduced by Phison delivers the following key features:

• Sustained Write Performance to prevent dropped frames.
• Power Loss Protection (PLP) to ensure data is effectively preserved in the event of a power outage.
• Reliability and durability to support continuous intensive data writing for extended periods, such as 24 hours.

In addition to offering a maximum sustained performance of 500 MB/s, PLP power loss data protection, a warranty period of over 3 years, a maximum storage capacity of 7.68 TB, and support for a wide temperature range, Phison's specialized SSD storages solution also incorporates Phison's exclusive Smart Rescue intelligent data recovery software tool. The Smart Rescue tool assists customers in recovering SSD data under specific abnormal conditions, making it a significant boon for users in need of a stable and reliable SSD storage solution for video recording and surveillance.

In the future, Phison will continue to release SSD solutions tailored to market demands, aiming to comprehensively support global video recording equipment and surveillance systems for manufacturers by creating secure and reliable specialized custom SSD storage solutions with added value.

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[theouto]

It does have potential uses outside of ensuring our future dystopian hellscape, data protection does sound like a nice consumer feature, specially for creatives.

 

[ncrs]

Only 3 years of warranty seems a bit low considering its competition. For example Micron 5400 PRO, Kingston DC500 and Samsung PM/SM SATA drives all have 5 years of warranty (or TBW).
The datasheet looks a bit iffy as well, it claims that Power Loss Protection is optionally available on models that are not the highest capacity. For 2.5" it stops at 3840GB (7680GB does not have it), for M.2 it stops at 960GB (1920GB does not have it).

It does have potential uses outside of ensuring our future dystopian hellscape, data protection does sound like a nice consumer feature, specially for creatives.

They are quite nice for small deployments of Ceph. SSDs without PLP suffer comparatively high latencies on it since Ceph always waits for confirmation from the drive, so PLP SATA SSDs of high capacity are a perfect fit. Controllers on them acknowledge writes immediately even if data hasn't been written to NAND yet due to PLP being a buffer to finish the job in case power goes out.
For bigger deployments those problems do not really surface since enterprise SAS/NVMe SSDs always have PLP.

 

[b1k3rdude]

Gotta love the bad english on the first slide "unleash precision in every frame", that dosent even make sense. And speedy performance, its sata and all its doing is being consistant with its throughput. The capacitor backup to allow cache flushing is good though, more SSD's should come with this.

 

[Prima.Vera]

• Sustained Write Performance to prevent dropped frames.

In addition to offering a maximum sustained performance of 500 MB/s...

60 frames per second
3840 x 2160 pixels per frame
4 bytes per pixel
= 1.99 GB/s

So this SATA ssd can record only uncompressed HD streams.

 

[Bwaze]

60 frames per second
3840 x 2160 pixels per frame
4 bytes per pixel
= 1.99 GB/s

So this SATA ssd can record only uncompressed HD streams, yet is advertised as the second coming of SSDs for surveillance systems or something...

I don't think "video" here is meant for video production, RAW 4K capture etc... For surveilance you'd want compression for smaller file sizes, these SSDs aren't exactly huge, you only get what was already available years ago in terms of capacity - Samsung launched 8TB 870 QVO nearly 4 years ago!

 

[Nostras]

60 frames per second
3840 x 2160 pixels per frame
4 bytes per pixel
= 1.99 GB/s

So this SATA ssd can record only uncompressed HD streams, yet is advertised as the second coming of SSDs for surveillance systems or something...

Surveillance recordings are always compressed to shit.
And aside from that, the SATA interface literally cannot support much more than 500MB/s. It's capped at 600MB/s but that includes overhead (and excludes encoding). It literally can't get any better than this.
Or much if you want to be pedantic.

 

[Prima.Vera]

I don't think "video" here is meant for video production, RAW 4K capture etc... For surveillance you'd want compression for smaller file sizes, these SSDs aren't exactly huge, you only get what was already available years ago in terms of capacity - Samsung launched 8TB 870 QVO nearly 4 years ago!

Yeah, fair enough.

Surveillance recordings are always compressed to shit.
And aside from that, the SATA interface literally cannot support much more than 500MB/s. It's capped at 600MB/s but that includes overhead (and excludes encoding). It literally can't get any better than this.
Or much if you want to be pedantic.

True. But I was hoping for next gen nVme interface by now...

 

[Wirko]

So you've got a manufacturing plant or a storehouse or an office or a nucular reactor with surveillance cameras all around, and SSDs with big capacitors will keep recording video up until the moment a burglar cuts/blows up your power lines, while without PLP, you'd lose the last half a second that was left in the RAM cache. That's great. Of course you don't have backup power supply. Who ever does? Do I understand the greatness of PLP correctly?