Toshiba Makes The Industry Storage Lead With 14TB Helium HDD

Toshiba announced its new helium-infused 14TB HDD to lead with the densest conventional hard drive on the market ever. Toshiba crammed 14TB of data into its new drive using Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR), which is to say PMR without shingling.It will have same performance compared to other “normal” HDDs. The drive offers up to 260 MB/s a throughput. Toshiba also becomes the only company with a nine-platter drive with 18 heads. Each platter packs 1.56TB of data storage. 14TB Helium HDD represents a 40% increase in density over Toshiba’s previous-gen 10TB models. Toshiba currently has 24% of the HDD market share according to Coughlin and Associates, which comes in third to Seagate (36%) and Western Digital (40%).

“Toshiba’s first helium-sealed near line drive intercepts the market at a class-leading 14 TB capacity with CMR,” said John Chen, industry analyst at Trend Focus. “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.”

Toshiba Makes The Industry Storage Lead With 14TB Helium HDD

Toshiba Makes The Industry Storage Lead With 14TB Helium HDD

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