Toshiba Reveals 12TB and 14TB 3.5-Inch Helium HDDs for NAS

Toshiba Electronic Devices and Storage Corporation announces the MN07 Series 12TB ⁽¹⁾ and 14TB 3.5-inch ⁽²⁾ HDDs for use in NAS platforms.

The MN07 Series utilizes a helium-sealed mechanical design to achieve 14TB and 12TB capacity. The 14TB model improves power efficiency by approximately 55% (W/GB ⁽³⁾) over the previous 10TB ‘air’ 7,200rpm mechanical designs.

The MN07 Series is designed for use in NAS appliances with eight or more drive bays and is suitable for NAS file and object storage applications that require disk drives with workload ratings of up to 180TB per year ⁽⁴⁾. The MN07 models feature vibration compensation technology and advanced Format (AF) 512e sector technology. Additionally, both devices offer 24/7 operability, reliability with MTTF ⁽⁵⁾ of one million hours, and are compatible with popular 3rd-party, 3.5-inch NAS enclosures.

“Toshiba’s new MN07 Series provides proven NAS-class performance and durability. Toshiba’s exclusive 9-disk, helium-sealed mechanics deliver real value to OEMs and integrators of file- and object- storage solutions who utilize proven network-attached storage technologies,” said Shuji Takaoka, GM, storage products sales and marketing division, Toshiba Electronic Devices and Storage Corporation. “MN07 Series models include RV compensation technology for optimal performance in multi-disk NAS enclosures and are designed for robust 24/7 operation up to 300,000 load/unload cycles.“

The MN07 series sample shipment will start.

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⁽¹⁾ Definition of capacity: Toshiba defines a 1MB as 1,000,000 bytes, 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes and 1TB as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer OS, however, reports storage capacity using powers of two 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 OS, such as Microsoft OS and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
⁽²⁾ Form factor: 3.5-inch means the form factor of HDDs or SSDs. They do not indicate drive’s physical size.
⁽³⁾ Power efficiency is calculated based on active idle power consumption divided by formatted capacity.
⁽⁴⁾ Workload is a measure of the data throughput of the year, and it is defined as the amount of data written, read or verified by commands from the host system.
⁽⁵⁾ 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.