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Toshiba Announces Its Highest Capacity Enterprise Cloud HDD
The Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba (News - Alert) America Electronic
Components, Inc., a committed technology leader, announces a new,
high-capacity addition to the MC04 Series launched in May of last year.
The 6TB1 version of the MC04 Series of enterprise
high-capacity HDDs is designed for bulk storage systems and servers
supporting cloud-based applications and scale-out workloads. With an
industry standard 3.5-inch form factor, the MC04 Series delivers 7,200
revolutions per minute (RPM) performance2, enabling suitable
service levels for high performance cloud-based applications and storage.
Toshiba's highest capacity enterprise cloud HDD delivers a 20 percent
increase over the previous generation's 5TB capacity, enabling more
efficient high-density, high-growth storage for multi-petabyte rack
deployments. Furthermore, the newest addition to the MC04 Series
improves ROI for scale-out storage solutions with a 20 percent increase
in power efficiency (TB/W) over previous generations, enabling more
cost-effective delivery of cloud storage services.
The MC04 Series is also available in 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, and 5TB capacities
and supports the industry-standard 180TB transferred per year workload
rating, optimizing it for lower tier workloads in high capacity,
scale-out cloud-based storage and server use cases. The entire MC04
Series of HDDs features SATA 6Gbit/s3 interface speeds and
Advanced Format sector technology, enabling both higher aerial density
and compatibility with legacy applications and operating environments.
"Today's cloud-based infrastructures require cost-effective, increased
storage capacity," said Scott Wright, director of disk drive product
marketing at Toshiba Storage Products Business Unit. "With up to 6TB
capacity and 7,200 RPM performance, the Toshiba MC04 Series delivers an
optimized balance of enterprise capacity, workload, and performance
required by our customers' high data growth cloud use-cases."
"Toshiba's MC04 Series proved very capable during our intense regression
testing, while Toshiba's responsive customer service greatly simplified
our evaluation process," said Paul Turner (News - Alert), chief marketing officer at
Cloudian. "Toshiba's breadth of capacity and 7,200 RPM performance
positions us to build cost-efficient cloud storage that provides
exceptional service levels to customers."
The 6TB MC04 Series samples will be available in August 2015. For more
information on Toshiba's portfolio of industry-leading solid state
drives, hard drives and hybrid storage solutions, visit www.toshibastorage.com.
To connect with Toshiba Storage, visit the cororate blog at http://storage.toshiba.com/corporateblog/
and follow @ToshibaStorage
on Twitter (News - Alert).
About Toshiba Storage Products
Toshiba Corporation and its affiliates offer one-of-a-kind global
storage solutions, offering hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state drives
(SSDs) and NAND flash memories - technologies that drive a wide range of
consumer electronics, computer and automotive applications, as well as
enterprise solutions for the global marketplace. Toshiba is a leader in
the development, design and manufacture of mobile, consumer and
enterprise hard disk drives and solid state drives. In North America,
the Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic
Components, Inc., markets high-quality storage peripherals to original
equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, value-added
resellers, value-added dealers, systems integrators and distributors
worldwide. Inherent in the Toshiba storage family are the high-quality
engineering and manufacturing capabilities that have established Toshiba
products as innovation leaders worldwide. For more information, visit www.toshibastorage.com.
About Toshiba Corp. and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
(TAEC)
Through proven commitment, lasting relationships and advanced, reliable
electronic components, Toshiba enables its customers to create
market-leading designs. Toshiba is the heartbeat within product
breakthroughs from OEMs, ODMs, CMs, VARs, distributors and fabless chip
companies worldwide. A committed electronic components leader, Toshiba
designs and manufactures high-quality flash memory-based storage
solutions, solid state drives (SSDs), hard disk drives (HDDs), solid
state hybrid drives (SSHDs), discrete devices, custom SoCs/ASICs,
imaging products, microcontrollers, wireless components, mobile
peripheral devices, advanced materials and medical tubes that make
possible today's leading smartphones, tablets, cameras, medical devices,
automotive electronics, industrial applications, enterprise solutions
and more.
Toshiba
America Electronic Components, Inc. is an independent operating
company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba
Corporation, Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world's
sixth largest semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner (News - Alert), 2014 Worldwide
Semiconductor Revenue Estimates, December 2014). Founded in Tokyo in
1875, Toshiba is at the heart of a global network of over 590
consolidated companies employing over 200,000 people worldwide. Visit
Toshiba's web site at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm.
© 2015 Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. All rights reserved.
Information in this press release, including product pricing and
specifications, content of services and contact information, is current
and believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is
subject to change without prior notice. Technical and application
information contained here is subject to the most recent applicable
Toshiba product specifications.
1 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 (News - Alert) Operating System and/or
pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted
capacity may vary."
2 Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device,
read and write conditions, and file size.
3 Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device,
read and write conditions, and file size.
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