The introduction of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology has enabled HDD manufacturers, such as Toshiba, to increase the capacity of their spinning platter drives beyond that of existing approaches. SMR technology is recognized as having an impact on write-speeds in drives where this technology is used, especially in the case of continuous random writing. For this reason, Toshiba products are carefully tailored to specific workloads and use cases.

For example, in use cases such as network-attached storage (NAS), where continuous random writing regularly occurs, Toshiba’s current product line for consumers features the N300, which does not use SMR.

The following drives do use SMR technology:

The P300 Desktop PC Hard Drive range of products, which is the product line for client drive application, such as all-in-one PCs and desktop PCs.

In the current range, the following drives do use SMR technology:

• P300 6TB – HDWD260UZSVA (Bulk)
• P300 4TB – HDWD240UZSVA (Bulk)

The L200 Laptop PC Hard Drive range of products, which is the product line for client drive application, such as notebook PC, game consoles, and external enclosures, etc.

The following drives also use SMR technology:

• L200 2TB – HDWL120UZSVA (Bulk), HDWL120EZSTA (Retail), HDWL120XZSTA (Retail)
• L200 1TB – HDWL110UZSVA (Bulk), HDWL110EZSTA (Retail), HDWL110XZSTA (Retail)

Toshiba works extensively with Notebook and Desktop PC vendors on the selection of the appropriate storage media to help ensure the data integrity, reliability and planned lifetime requirements of the system. To find out more information on selecting the type of drive suitable for your needs, please visit consumer website at https://www.toshiba-storage.com/

Industry’s largest capacity 16TB hard disk drives deliver new level of storage density and improved power efficiency.

Düsseldorf, Germany – 08. January 2019 – Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH announces Enterprise Capacity Hard Disk Drives – MG08 Series, the industry’s largest capacity 16TB^{[1] [2]} Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD. With 33% more capacity than today’s widely adopted 12TB drives, and 14% more capacity than prior 14TB models, MG08 16TB drives are compatible with the widest range of applications and operating systems, and adapted to mixed random and sequential read and write workloads in both cloud and traditional datacenter environments.

The MG08 Series is Toshiba’s second-generation helium-sealed HDD family, and eighth-generation Enterprise Capacity HDD family. “Toshiba has delivered its industry-leading 16TB capacity and improved power efficiency by utilizing the 9-disk helium design, introduced last year in 14TB models, and its own advanced precision laser welding process to ensure the helium remains sealed inside the drive case,” comments Larry Martinez-Palomo, General Manager, HDD Business Unit, Toshiba Electronics Europe.

The MG08 features 7,200rpm performance, a 550TB per year workload rating^[3], a 2.5 million-hour MTTF^[4], a 512Mib cache buffer^[5], and a choice of SATA and SAS interfaces—all in an industry-standard, 3.5-inch^[6] form factor.

The MG08 Series further illustrates Toshiba’s commitment to advancing HDD design to meet the evolving needs for storage devices suited for use in cloud-scale servers and storage infrastructure. As data growth continues at an explosive pace, the industry-leading 16TB CMR capacity will help cloud-scale service providers and storage solutions designers to achieve higher storage densities for cloud, hybrid-cloud and on-premises rack-scale storage. Larry Martinez-Palomo from Toshiba Electronics Europe adds: “With its improved power efficiency and 16TB capacity, the MG08 Series will help lower the TCO of storage infrastructure designed for applications such as data-protection, big data aggregation, content serving and digital archiving.”

Shipments of samples of 16TB MG08 Series drives to customers will begin sequentially in Q1.

Notes:

[1] Source: Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH, as of January 8, 2019.

[2] Definition of capacity: Toshiba defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and 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.

[3] Workload is a measure of the data throughput in a year, and it is defined as the amount of data written, read or verified by commands from the host system.

[4] 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. Actual operating life of the product may be different from the MTTF.

[5] A mebibyte (MiB) means 2²⁰, or 1,048,576 bytes.

[6] “3.5-inch” means the form factor of HDDs. It does not indicate a drive’s physical size.

* Information in this document, including product prices and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and believed to be accurate as of the date of the announcement, but is subject to change without prior notice.

* Company names, product names, and service names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

Christmas is one of those special times during the year that have to be captured – the anticipation, the love shared, the little mishap. Whether taking a snapshot of the burned turkey getting buried secretly in the garden or the big eyes when your child is given its presents, Toshiba provides hard drives for any specific need and purpose to safely store these precious moments for years to come.

Canvio Premium
No compromise – the best for storing family pictures

A very special gift for a friend or family members who enjoy form and function. This stylish and attractive aluminium cased hard disk drive delivers up to 3TB storage capacity and comes with an extra soft pouch among several other practical features. Canvio Premium is available for Mac or PCs if you are a mobile or high-end desktop user, it has all the connections and compatibility you’ll need.

Also available as Canvio Premium for Mac.

Canvio Advance
Colour your trees with this drive

Available now in snow white and bauble red, the new Canvio Advance brings colour to your gifts under the Christmas tree. With capacities of up to 3TB and useful features, such as the downloadable backup software and security software, the drive is an easy-to-use storage solution for keeping your personal memories safe.

The red and white colours get you into the right Christmas mood.

X300 Performance Hard Drive
Level up to top performer

High-capacity of up to 10 TB, topped with speed and reliability will be highly appreciated by the music lover, gamer or graphic designer in your clan. Give your loved
one the gift to power up their workstations for high performance AAA gaming!

The perfect gift for gamers.

N300 NAS Hard Drive
Give yourself a gift this Christmas!

Why not use the holiday break to build your home NAS system into a storage power bank with the new Toshiba 10TB N300 NAS drive? Thanks to the Toshiba Stable Platter Technology, increased capacity and a durable design, those drives deliver exceptional performance, high capacity storage and endurance for 24/7 operation. Treat yourself or Techie family members this Christmas!

A safe place for all your files.

Toshiba gives more capacity to SAS 3.5” enterprise HDD models

New MG07SCA 14 / 12TB hard disk drives help SAS-based cloud-scale storage platforms achieve TCO objectives

Düsseldorf, Germany, 28 August 2018 – Toshiba Electronic Europe (“Toshiba”) announced its new Enterprise Capacity 14TB[1] and 12TB helium-sealed SAS HDD models. The MG07SCA Series features 7,200 rpm performance, a SAS 12Gbit interface[2], and Advanced Format Sector Technology. The hard disk drives boast an industry-leading, 9-disk helium-sealed design and 14TB or 12TB of Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) capacity for optimum compatibility. Toshiba’s helium-sealed design fits into industry standard 3.5-inch [3] drive bays.

The innovative 9-disk helium-sealed design utilizes Toshiba’s precision laser welding process and a special top-cover design seals helium inside the drive, offering high capacity and low power profile to the product. The SAS interface provides 12Gbits transfer rate performance and dual port capability for data-path redundancy preferred by many storage solutions designers. The 14TB SAS model delivers an approximately 40% increase in maximum capacity compared to Toshiba’s prior MG06 10TB SAS models.

“By utilizing an innovative 9-disk design, Toshiba provides both SAS and SATA models at an industry leading 14TB capacity while expanding the choice available to cloud scale and enterprise storage solutions customers,” Larry Martinez-Palomo, General Manager, HDD Business Unit, Toshiba Electronics Europe. “Our customers strongly value the power-efficient storage capacity enabled by Toshiba’s advanced 9-disk helium-sealed mechanics. By using helium to reduce the aerodynamic drag on the spinning media platters, the Toshiba 14TB model is able to provide approximately 55% (W/G[4]) lower operating power profile over the previous 10TB model, resulting in TCO benefits for today’s dense storage platforms and cloud-scale service-solution architectures. Only helium-sealed HDD technology is able to deliver these customers’ TCO [5] benefits with an amazingly low acquisition cost per GB.”

Toshiba continues to expand its HDD product offerings with higher storage capacity and performance. The MG07SCA Series further illustrates Toshiba’s capability to advance the design of HDD storage devices for cloud-scale server and enterprise storage infrastructure, enabling more cost-effective data-protection, data-retention, content serving and digital archiving.

The 14TB and 12TB helium-sealed SAS HDD models are available for sampling today.

Toshiba Electronics Europe will exhibit its Storage Solutions at the IFA 2018, Berlin trade show from Aug 31st – Sep 5th in hall 17, booth 104.

Notes:

* Information in this document, including product prices and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and believed to be accurate as of the date of the announcement but is subject to change without prior notice.

* Company names, product names, and service names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

[1] Definition of capacity: A terabyte (TB) is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1TB = 240 = 1,099,511,627,776 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 and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content.  Actual formatted capacities may vary.

[2] Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions, and file size.

[3] Form Factor: “3.5-inch” means the form factor of HDDs. They do not indicate drive’s physical size.

[4] Power efficiency is calculated based on active idle power consumption divided by formatted capacity.

[5] Total Cost of Ownership.

Toshiba Canvio hard drives – a safe place to store your holiday memories

25th July 2018, Düsseldorf, Germany – Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH (TEE) offers the must-have tech gadget of this summer: an external Canvio hard drive. When your travels lead you to stunning places, you need a safe place to store all the impressions.

Life while travelling is full of adventure. Every day there are memories to save and new experiences to report on. Make space for new moments in your smartphone’s and camera’s memory and secure the best souvenirs of your travels without fear of losing the files you care about. You can trust your Toshiba Canvio Premium, Canvio Advance or Canvio Basics to keep your data safe.

With special password security software, the Canvio Premium and Canvio Advance give you the peace of mind that you will be the only person able to access your data during the trip.

The Canvio Premium is available with aluminium casing in dark grey or silver metallic and up to 3 TB of capacity.

It also comes with extras you won’t find on other hard disks, such as a USB Type-C adapter for flexible connectivity, software for added protection, a 3-year extended warranty and a velvet pouch for stylish transport. It also can be purchased as Canvio Premium for Mac model.

The Canvio Advance is the easy-to-use storage solution for people who look for inner values and outer beauty: up to 3 TB of portable storage packed into a sleek and solid casing in white, blue, red or black. Backing up your files also is a breeze, thanks to practical features, including the downloadable backup software and security software.

With the Canvio Basics, available in black, it’s easy to keep your memories safe and revisit them in clear detail later. Quickly transfer files with SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and store up to 3 TB of data on the ready-to-use Canvio Basics. Whether at your desk, or on the go, its timeless design with the matt finish means it’ll always look good.

What are you waiting for? Your bags are packed – protect your summer memories as you would with your skin and load up with memories!