Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH (Toshiba) and PROMISE Technology have collaborated for over ten years to deliver advanced storage technology, managing over 1TB of data per minute generated by CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator. great and powerful in the world.
Operating without interruption, the LHC’s collision detectors produce 1TB of data per minute, requiring robust and reliable storage. To meet this demand, CERN has been using Toshiba enterprise hard drives, starting with 4TB drives and moving up to 18TB MG09 series drives.
It reaches a capacity of more than one Exabyte with more than 120,000 hard drives housed in more than 4,000 JBOD cabinets, as a new video shows
Throughout this time, both companies have worked on expanding the storage capacity of CERN’s main data center, which distributes information to more than 170 global research institutes for analysis. Currently, the system has reached a capacity of more than one Exabyte, equivalent to one thousand Petabytes or one million Terabytes, with more than 120,000 hard drives in more than 4,000 JBOD arrays, as shown in a new video.
According to Eric Bonfillou, deputy head of CERN’s IT Fabric Group, “in our quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, we need partners who understand the importance of data storage. datareliability and efficiency with solutions tailored to our unique needs.”
For her part, Alice Chang, Marketing Director of PROMISE Technology highlights that the energy crisis is currently a real challenge for all companies, including CERN, “The Vtrak J5960 provides a comprehensive solution to solve this dilemma and we are sure that the “Toshiba’s enterprise capacity hard drives, installed and operated in this JBOD, will support future growth needs.”
TOToshiba storage and PROMISE
In addition to celebrating its collaboration with CERN, the video highlights technological advances and the future of data storage at the research center. Toshiba and PROMISE Technology are committed to providing solutions that ensure the continuity of LHC research, contributing to the understanding of the universe.
Building on this success, PROMISE Technology has developed a new 60-bay JBOD model, the VTrak J5960. This JBOD storage system incorporates Greenboost technology, which allows energy savings of up to 30%. Toshiba conducted the first tests of this system in its HDD Applications Laboratory with its 20TB MG10 series enterprise hard drives, confirming its performance in terms of data, cooling and energy efficiency, aligning with the global push towards disk management practices. more sustainable and environmentally friendly data.
