Phison Delivers SSD Capabilities That Today’s High-Performance Video Surveillance Needs

As video surveillance systems proliferate, they require data storage that can deliver advanced performance.

In a blog article, Phison engineer Henry Chen outlined the benefits of using SSDs and SDs in video surveillance systems. In this article, we’ll take a look at how Phison is meeting today’s advanced needs for SSDs that enable even the most sophisticated surveillance systems.

Need for high-performance surveillance video storage is growing

Video surveillance is becoming ubiquitous. Whether they’re in a public square for citizen safety, on the production line to ensure product quality or acting as a layer of protection for remote high-value equipment, video cameras are everywhere.

Today’s users are also demanding ever-higher video resolutions. As computing capacities have grown and the ability to store and analyze massive volumes of data evolves, high-resolution video is quickly becoming standard. Higher resolution video enables other advanced technologies, such as facial recognition software, real-time analytics for dynamic traffic signal control and more granular computer vision capabilities for QA purposes in manufacturing.

The higher the resolution, however, the higher storage capacity is needed. In addition to high-capacity storage, SSDs used in video surveillance need to meet other critical requirements. These include:

• • • Reliability
    • Physical and digital durability
    • Low power consumption
    • Power loss prevention
    • Security

Phison offers specialized SSDs designed for video surveillance

As a world leader in NAND controllers and flash storage solutions, Phison knows SSDs. The company also understands modern video surveillance technologies and requirements—and to that end has recently announced the launch of SSD storage solutions made for multi-channel video and surveillance systems: the mid- to high-range S12DI and the cost-effective S17T SSD solutions. These SSDs can help you get the clear, precision video footage you need, every time.

They offer:

Reliability

Video surveillance systems require data storage that is reliable, and that usually means an SSD capable of standing up to long periods of continuous, intensive data writes. Phison SSDs can handle sustained write performance, up to a maximum sustained performance of 500 MB/s and includes proprietary firmware that helps prevent dropped frames. They also come with a warranty of more than three years of high-resolution recording action.

Physical and digital durability

Many video surveillance systems record around the clock and need data storage that can keep up. Typical mean time before failure (MTBF) for Phison’s video surveillance SSDs is 2 million hours for outstanding durability. The company’s SSDs undergo comprehensive and rigorous testing and can remain operational in harsh environments, which includes extreme temperatures from -40 degrees C (-40 degrees F) to 85 degrees C (185 degrees F) as well as vibration, dust and shock.

Low power consumption

Organizations around the world are striving to decrease carbon emissions and reduce energy consumption, and this includes use of power in their video surveillance systems. Phison video surveillance SSDs deliver optimal performance at less than 4 watts of active power consumption. That’s a lot less energy than a hard disk drive would use.

Power loss prevention

Phison surveillance SSDs come with power loss prevention, or pFail protection circuitry, that helps prevent the loss or corruption of data in the event of unplanned power failure. By charging whenever the SSD powers up, tantalum electrolytic capacitors on the SSD can act as a sort of uninterruptible power supply. When power goes out, the capacitors keep the SSD running for a short time, which allows it to move all the data in volatile memory to NAND flash cells for safekeeping.

Learn more: Avoiding SSD Data Loss With Phison’s Power Loss Protection

Security

Phison cares about protecting your critical data. That’s why the company’s surveillance SSDs have a number of security features in the firmware. These include anti-tampering protection that protects against X-rays, firmware anti-rollback protection and key revocation, secure debug with default lockdown and authenticated unlock, AES-256 data encryption and secure boot and firmware updates. Phison also helps protect stored data with its exclusive Smart Rescue data recovery software tool. This tool allows customers to recover data from an SSD in specific abnormal conditions where the damage is not physical.

Read: Data Storage Needs for Modern Video Surveillance

Advanced data storage that meets today’s—and tomorrow’s–needs

Phison is committed to investing heavily and continuously to research and develop the next big thing in data storage technologies. The company has an eye on the future and will continue to deliver what modern organizations require as tech capabilities such as video surveillance, AI, machine learning, data analytics and more evolve.