20 April 2018, Düsseldorf, Germany – Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH (TEE) announces capacity expansions and new model variations to its lineup of internal hard disk drives (HDDs), expanding the company’s profile in the hard drive space. Within the range, three of the hard drive families have been upgraded with different advances over previous models, including capacities and storage buffer. The N300 NAS Hard Drive for network attached storage (NAS) and the X300 Performance Hard Drive for high-performance or gaming PCs now feature a 10 TB[1] model, as well as smaller variants, and larger cache options, while the L200 Laptop PC Hard Drive for consumer and professional laptops now comes with up to 2 TB of storage and an increased cache of up to 128 MB for the newly added models.
The 3.5-inch[2] N300 NAS Hard Drive (N300) is designed for use in personal, home office and small business network attached storage applications such as for scalable RAID systems[3]. The HDD family has expanded its capacity to 10 TB of storage (up from 8 TB in 2017). It is optimised for the performance, reliability and endurance requirements of 24/7 operation high-capacity storage.
The 10 TB model features 7,200 rpm, sustained data transfer speeds up to 248 MB/s and an increased, 256 MB data buffer, while all capacities come with rotational vibration (RV) sensors, as well as supporting a 180 TB/year workload rate[4]. Toshiba has also implemented advanced technologies such as Toshiba’s Stable Platter Technology and delivers high performance, reliability, endurance and scalability in multi-bay NAS systems in which large amounts of data need to be efficiently stored and accessed daily.