Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation Launches 10-terabyte Enterprise Capacity HDD
26 September 2017 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation today
announced the addition of an 10-terabyte (TB[1]) SATA model to its
MG06 series of 3.5-inch[2], enterprise capacity class hard disk
drives (HDD). Shipments start from today.
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Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage
Corporation: 10TB HDD "MG06 Series", 3.5-inch form-factor,
enterprise capacity class HDD. (Photo: Business Wire)
The continuing progress of digitization, most recently the
quickening expansion of IoT and the increasing reliance on cloud
services means that more information is being generated and stored
than ever before, and that the rate of its creation only continues
to increase. The data centers and cloud-based services that use
this data constantly require higher-capacity, higher-performance
HDDs.
Toshiba’s MG06 series HDDs meet industry requirements by
deploying an improved magnetic recording head and disk magnetic
layer, and now deliver up to 10TB of capacity with air-based HDDs,
a 25%[3] increase over the maximum capacity of the earlier MG05
series. The HDDs achieve a sustained transfer rate of 237
MiB/s[4,5], and a 25%[6] improvement in operating life that boosts
MTTF[7] to 2,500,000 hours. These improvements in capacity, speed
and reliability can contribute to the lower system TCO (total cost
of ownership).
The new HDDs support both industry-standard 512emulation (512e)
and 4K native (4Kn) advanced format sector technologies, for use in
legacy applications requiring 512 sector lengths using
aligned-write environments, and are also suitable for the latest
generation of servers and storage systems.
Customers also can select 512e models supporting SIE (Sanitize
Instant Erase), which realize fast invalidation of data recorded on
the disks, allowing for efficient disposal and reuse.
Toshiba will continue to develop and offer products meeting
customer demands.
Notes[1] Definition of capacity: Toshiba defines a terabyte (TB)
as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however,
reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of
1GB = 230 = 1,073,741,824 bytes and therefore shows less storage
capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various
media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings,
software and operating system, such as Microsoft Operating System
and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content.
Actual formatted capacity may vary.[2] "3.5-inch" refers to the
form factor of HDDs. It indicates the size of the disks, not the
HDD's physical size.[3] Comparison between MG05 series: 8 TB and
MG06 series: 10 TB[4] Read and write speeds may vary depending on
the host device, read and write conditions, and file size.[5] A
mebibyte (MiB) is 220, or 1,048,576 bytes.[6] Comparison between
MG05 series: 2M hour and MG06 series: 2.5M hour[7] MTTF (mean time
to failure) is not a guarantee or estimate of product life; it is a
statistical value related to mean failure rates for a large number
of products, which may not accurately reflect actual
operation. The actual operating life of the product may differ
from the MTTF.
Follow the link below for more on the new
product.https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/product/storage-products/enterprise-hdd/mg06acaxxxx.html
Follow the link below for more on Toshiba’s HDDs
line-up.https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/product/storage-products/enterprise-hdd.html
Customer Inquiries:Storage Products
Divisionhttps://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/contact.html
Information in this document, including product prices and
specifications, content of services and contact information, is
current on the date of the announcement but is subject to change
without prior notice.
About Toshiba Electronic Devices &
Storage CorporationToshiba Electronic Devices &
Storage Corporation (TDSC) combines the vigor of a new company with
the wisdom of experience. Since being spun off from Toshiba
Corporation in July 2017, we have taken our place among the leading
general devices companies, and offer our customers and business
partners outstanding solutions in discrete semiconductors, system
LSIs and HDD.
Our 19,000 employees around the world share a determination to
maximize the value of our products, and emphasize close
collaboration with customers to promote co-creation of value and
new markets. We look forward to building on annual sales now
surpassing 700-billion yen (US$6 billion) and to contributing to a
better future for people everywhere.Find out more about us at
https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/company.html
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