[Update] Toshiba Crammed 14Tb Into Its Cause Helium-Filled Difficult Drive

While Toshiba is slow to the helium party, this this is the get-go 14TB elbow grease to role conventional magnetic recording.

Toshiba has begun transportation a 14TB helium-filled difficult elbow grease to clients, its largest capacity to engagement as well as the company's get-go foray into helium territory. Of course, helium-filled HDDs are non new, as well as WD already released a 14TB HDD a distich of months ago. However, Toshiba's is the industry's get-go HDD to pack nine disks inside, as well as the entirely 14TB elbow grease to role conventional magnetic recording (CMR) technology.
The novel elbow grease is business office of Toshiba's MG07ACA series. It is available inwards both 12TB as well as 14TB capacities, both of which are CMR drives.
"We stimulate got raised the bar amongst the novel MG07ACA Series 9-disk helium-sealed design," said Akitoshi Iwata, Vice President of Storage Products Division, Toshiba Electronic Devices as well as Storage Corporation. "By utilizing an innovative design, nosotros proceed to ameliorate the benefits that high-capacity disk storage tin deliver to our wide global client base."
There are a distich of things to Federal Reserve notation close the 14TB model that teach inwards stand upwards out from the competition. The get-go is the publish of disks, or platters, that Toshiba squeezed inside. Toshiba is the entirely society offering a nine-platter elbow grease amongst eighteen heads, amongst each platter having simply about 1.56TB of storage. According to Anandtech, Toshiba accomplished the feat past times using Showa Denko's novel offerings that are 0.635mm thick, downward from 0.8mm platters inwards previous generation drives. Toshiba likewise shrunk the distance betwixt the platters to 1.58mm.
The other interesting bullet indicate is the recording technique. Unlike the competition, Toshiba has non turned to shingled magnetic recording (SMR).
"While company server as well as storage customers realize that shingled magnetic recording engineering scientific discipline tin ameliorate HDD capacity, the adoption of SMR HDD products into server as well as storage systems is a transition that volition accept several years," said John Rydning, Research Vice President for difficult disk drives at IDC. "Toshiba’s novel helium-sealed company HDD is the world’s get-go 14TB of storage capacity using conventional rather than shingled magnetic recording technology, giving company customers the highest capacity HDD available inwards the marketplace today for existing server as well as storage organisation architectures."
Related to CMR is performance. The 14TB model boasts upwards to 260MB/s of throughput, piece the eight-platter 12TB model is non far behind at 250MB/s. Both of these are 7,200 RPM drives, amongst 256MB of cache.
As amongst most of the highest capacity drives on the market, Toshiba built this novel serial primarily amongst servers as well as datacenters inwards mind. That's frequently how it goes—the company sector gets get-go dibs earlier trickling into the abode consumer market.

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