After Seagate and WD, Toshiba Late Into 6TB HDD (With 6 Platters)
Beginning to sample to OEMs only in 1Q15, with 6Gb SATA and 12Gb SAS
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on December 22, 2014 at 3:11 pmThe Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announces the addition of 6TB SATA and SAS models to its MG04 series of 3.5-inch form factor enterprise capacity class of HDDs.
New SAS interface models provide the benefits of 12Gb SAS transfer rate and enhanced power management features for seamless integration with the latest generation of data center infrastructure.
The MG04 series is designed for midline and nearline business critical workloads.
The MG04 series 6TB models offer a 50% increase in max capacity from prior MG03 generation 4TB models and a 30% increase in sustained data rate. These enterprise HDDs support both 4K native and 512e Advanced Format sector technologies for optimum performance in the latest generation servers and storage systems. Emulated 512e Advanced Format sector technology performs best in legacy applications requiring 512 sector lengths using aligned-write environments.
Both the 6TB MG04ACA and MG04SCA 12Gb models offer persistent write cache technologies, designed to help protect against data loss in the event of sudden power loss, while also helping to improve performance and data reliability. Model options supporting SAS and SATA commands to enable sanitize ‘instant’ cryptographic erase (SIE) are also available.
Spinning at 7,200rpm, they deliver nearline-class seek performance to improve application response times. At 6TB, the higher capacity per spindle saves rack space and reduces the footprint and operational burden of business-critical servers and storage systems to help optimize TCO in high-density scale-out environments. The 6TB models provide 50% better power efficiency (watts per terabyte) than the previous 4TB drive generation.
“Our customers expect to benefit from the ncreased capacity, efficiency and performance made possible by the latest industry-standard interface and long sector technologies,” said Scott Wright, director of HDD product marketing, Toshiba storage products business unit. “These additions to the MG04 series deliver an impressive 6TB capacity and continue to provide the benefits of Toshiba’s persistent write cache technology to improve performance for business critical server and storage systems.”
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