Toshiba America: NAS N300 Pro and Performance X300 Pro Up to 18TB 3.5-Inch HDDs With Workloads Up to 300TB/year

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced 2 new HDD products.

The N300 Pro and X300 Pro HDDs are solutions for business owners and creative professionals seeking a HDD built for performance and reliability. Both of them boast capacities of up to 18TB ⁽¹⁾ with workloads up to 300TB/year ⁽²⁾ and a come with a limited 5-year warranty.

“As the working environment continues to evolve, professionals need reliable and performance-driven storage solutions that can keep up with their project needs and work flows,” stated Kyle Yamamoto, VP, HDD business unit. “Toshiba’s new N300 Pro is an ideal NAS HDD for the mid to large sized business with high intensity workloads, while the X300 Pro is geared to support the demands of professionals seeking a high performance and reliable HDD for content creation or extreme gaming.“

Both N300 Pro and X300 Pro are built around the company’s latest innovations in HDD technology. They combine the firm’s ‘Cache Technology and Stable Platter Technology’ (≥10TB range), and FC-MAMR ⁽³⁾ (18TB) to provide a solution for advanced consumers and professionals.

“These 2 new products are well-suited for the market, and Toshiba’s pre-established presence and reputation will accelerate the success of both N300 Pro and X300 Pro HDDs,” said Ed Burns, research director, IDC. “Toshiba is leveraging their core strengths and their state-of-the-art HDD technologies to bolster their product portfolio and to lift the company’s brand recognition in these two growing market segments.“

N300 Pro offers 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18TB capacities – with 7,200rpm rotational speed and CMR ⁽⁴⁾ technology Toshiba’s laser welding helium-sealed process is used in the 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18TB designs to achieve low power consumption and acoustic output. The drive is designed for 24/7 NAS environment, supports up to 24 drive bays ⁽⁵⁾, has built-in RV sensor to mitigate rotational vibration, and is rated at 1.2 million hour MTTF ⁽⁶⁾. The N300 Pro is built for NAS for intensity workloads and RAID-optimized NAS systems with up to 24 bays and is a fit for medium or large-sized businesses.

X300 Pro’s actuator designs help optimize positioning accuracy and R/W performance for real-time access to data. X300 Pro comes in 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18TB capacities and is manufactured with high-endurance components for reliability and workload performance. These models spin at 7,200rpm and employee CMR technology for compatibility. These HDD Pro also utilize the company’s laser welding helium-sealed design in the 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18TB models. All X300 Pro models have a 1.0 million hour MTTF and are built for workload-intensive applications for creative professionals and gaming PC enthusiasts. The X300 Pro is designed for professional desktop workstations, high-end gaming computers, workload performance PCs, and multi-media design workstations.

As a global technology company that has been innovating in storage for years, the firm offers a portfolio of HDD products that address the storage needs of enterprise, datacenter, surveillance, client, and consumer markets.

The company solves customer challenges with HDD models focusing on five primary market segments. The AL Series focuses on the enterprise performance segment; the MG Series is aimed at enterprise capacity and data center needs; the MQ Series covers the spectrum of use cases that require mobile client HDDs; and the DT Series addresses the surveillance and traditional desktop client use cases. Toshiba also offers a diverse consumer storage lineup that includes the Canvio series external HDDs and the N300/X300/S300/P300/L200 series internal HDDs designed for a range of storage applications.

(1) (1TB) means 1,000,000,000,000 bytes using powers of 10. A computer OS, however, reports storage capacity using powers of two for the definition of 1TB=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 OS and other factors. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
(2) 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.
(3) Toshiba’s Flux Control Microwave-assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology
(4) Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) technology
(5) For ‘Drive Bays Supported’, please contact your solutions provider because the compatibility with the host device will vary based on the system
(6) MTTF 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.