Toshiba Announces 16TB MG08 Series Hard Disk Drives

Toshiba
Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) announces
MG08 Series, the industry’s largest capacity 16TB^{[1] [2]}
Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD. With 33% more capacity than
today’s widely adopted 12TB drives, and 14% more capacity than prior
14TB models, MG08 16TB drives are compatible with the widest range of
applications and operating systems, and adapted to mixed random and
sequential read and write workloads in both cloud and traditional
datacenter environments.

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The MG08 Series is Toshiba’s second-generation helium-sealed HDD family,
and eighth-generation Enterprise Capacity HDD family. Toshiba has
delivered its industry-leading 16TB capacity and improved power
efficiency by utilizing the 9-disk helium design, introduced last year
in 14TB models, and its own advanced precision laser welding process to
ensure the helium remains sealed inside the drive case. The MG08
features 7,200rpm performance, a 550TB per year workload rating^[3],
a 2.5 million-hour MTTF^[4], a 512Mib cache buffer^[5],
and a choice of SATA and SAS interfaces—all in an industry-standard,
3.5-inch^[6] form factor.

The MG08 Series further illustrates Toshiba’s commitment to advancing
HDD design to meet the evolving needs for storage devices suited for use
in cloud-scale servers and storage infrastructure. As data growth
continues at an explosive pace, the industry-leading 16TB CMR capacity
will help cloud-scale service providers and storage solutions designers
to achieve higher storage densities for cloud, hybrid-cloud and
on-premises rack-scale storage. With its improved power efficiency and
16TB capacity, the MG08 Series will help lower the TCO of storage
infrastructure designed for applications such as data-protection, big
data aggregation, content serving and digital archiving.

“Toshiba’s new 16TB MG08 Series delivers new levels of storage capacity
and density while delivering improved power efficiency for our
cloud-scale and storage solutions customers. Only high-density HDD
technology can achieve our customers’ critical TCO objectives at a cost
of pennies per GB,” says Shuji Takaoka, General Manager of Storage
Products Sales & Marketing Division at Toshiba Electronic Devices &
Storage Corporation.

Shipments of samples of 16TB MG08 Series drives to customers will begin
sequentially at the end of this month.

[1] Source: Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, as of
January 8, 2019.
[2] Definition of capacity: Toshiba defines a
megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes
and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating
system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 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 operating system, such as Microsoft
Operating System and/or pre-installed software applications, or media
content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
[3] Workload is a
measure of the data throughput in a year, and it is defined as the
amount of data written, read or verified by commands from the host
system.
[4] 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.
[5] A mebibyte (MiB) means 2²⁰,
or 1,048,576 bytes.
[6] "3.5-inch" means the form factor of HDDs.
It does not indicate a drive's physical size.

* Information in this document, including product prices and
specifications, content of services and contact information, is current
and believed to be accurate as of the date of the announcement, but is
subject to change without prior notice.
* Company names, product
names, and service names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their
respective companies.

Follow the link below for more on the new 16TB MG08 Series.
https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/product/storage-products/enterprise-hdd/mg08.html

Follow the link below for more on Toshiba’s HDDs line-up.
https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/product/storage-products/enterprise-hdd.html

Customer Inquiries:
Storage Products Division
https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/contact.html

About Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
Toshiba
Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (TDSC) combines the vigor of a
new company with the wisdom of experience. Since being spun off from
Toshiba Corporation in July 2017, we have taken our place among the
leading general devices companies, and offer our customers and business
partners outstanding solutions in discrete semiconductors, system LSIs
and HDD.

Our 22,000 employees around the world share a determination to maximize
the value of our products, and emphasize close collaboration with
customers to promote co-creation of value and new markets. We look
forward to building on annual sales now surpassing 800-billion yen (US$7
billion) and to contributing to a better future for people everywhere.
Find
out more about us at https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/company.html

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