Toshiba Launches 14 & 12TB Helium-sealed SAS HDD for Enterprises

Toshiba Helium-sealed SAS HDD

Toshiba Corporation, commonly known as Toshiba, is a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. And it devotes itself to diversified products and services, such as communications equipment and systems, information technology, power systems, consumer electronics, electronic components and materials, etc.

As to its hard drives, it devotes itself to developing excellent products for users all over the world. Here is a piece of news about its HDD: this company announces the release of 14TB and 12TB Helium-sealed SAS HDD models for enterprise users. And these two models can be available for sampling now.

SAS 12 Gbit Interface and 9-disk Helium-sealed Design

According to this corporation, the MG07SCA series employs Advanced Format Sector Technology and has a SAS 12Gbit interface. Besides, this series features 7200 rpm performance. The hard drive boasts the industry’s leading 9-disk Helium-sealed design and 14TB of Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) capacity. Thus, it features the optimum compatibility.

This Helium-sealed design conforms to industry standard 3.5-inch drive bays. What’s more, this series also includes a 12TB model.

According to this company, the 9-disk Helium-sealed design uses the laser welding process of Toshiba. Importantly, it has a special top-cover design, helping seal helium inside the drive. As a result, this design offers high capacity and low power profile to the product.

Besides, the SAS interface is expected to offer 12Gbits transfer rate performance and dual port capability to many storage solutions designers for data-path redundancy. As per Toshiba, the 14TB SAS model offers about 40% increase than Toshiba’s prior MG06 10TB SAS models in maximum capacity.

Senior Director of Storage Products Marketing Group at Toshiba Electronic Components Taiwan Corporation, Takayoshi Tokushima says that the new Helium-sealed 14TB and 12TB SAS models of Toshiba expand the choices that are available to storage solutions and cloud-scale customers. And Toshiba provides two models including SAS and SATA at an industry leading 14TB capacity by utilizing an innovative 9-disk design.

“Our cloud-scale and storage solutions customers strongly value the power-efficient storage capacity enabled by Toshiba’s advanced 9-disk Helium-sealed mechanics. By using Helium to reduce the aerodynamic drag on the spinning media platters, the Toshiba 14TB model is able to provide approximately 55% (W/G) lower operating power profile over the previous 10TB model, resulting in TCO benefits for today’s dense storage platforms and cloud-scale service-solution architectures. Only Helium-sealed HDD technology is able to deliver these customers’ TCO benefits with an amazingly low acquisition cost per GB.”Toshiba

Bottom Line

Toshiba will continue to expand its HDD and release larger and more powerful products. The MG07SCA series further demonstrates the ability to improve the design of HDD storage devices for cloud-level servers and storage infrastructure. This can further enhance the cost-effectiveness of data protection, data storage, content services, and digital archiving.