Toshiba Following Western Digital/HGST With 14TB 3.5-Inch HDD

Toshiba Electronic announced the MG07ACA Series, the world's first enterprise 14TB Conventional Magnetic Recording HDD.

Using a 9-disk, helium-sealed design, the drive provides the power-efficient capacity and storage density needed by cloud-scale and enterprise storage solution providers to achieve their TCO objectives.

They have raised the bar with the new MG07ACA Series 9-disk helium-sealed design, by utilizing an innovative design, they continue to improve the benefits that high-capacity disk storage can deliver to their broad global customer base.

The MG07ACA Series features both 14TB 9-disk and 12TB 8-disk models. The helium-sealed 3.5-inch mechanical design realizes better storage density and a lower HDD operating power profile than the previous MG06ACA Series for optimal TCO in cloud-scale infrastructures.

The series also utilizes Toshiba Group's laser welding technology to ensure the helium remains securely sealed inside the drive enclosure.

The drives support a 6Gb SATA interface and 7,200rpm access performance. The 9-disk 14TB models achieve a 40% increase in maximum capacity over previous MG06ACA 10TB models.
Additionally, the 14TB models improve power efficiency by over 50% (W/GB).

Toshiba's first helium-sealed near line drive intercepts the market at a class-leading 14TB capacity with CMR. Its early time-to-market for this capacity positions the company well to meet the storage needs of large hyperscale and cloud companies. Additionally, the company's choice of a 9-disk platform paves the way to achieving higher capacities in future product generations.

While enterprise server and storage customers realize that shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology can improve HDD capacity, the adoption of SMR HDD products into server and storage systems is a transition that will take several years. 

Sample deliveries of MG07ACA Series drives to customers sequentially begin now.