Toshiba 12TB and 14TB 3.5-Inch Helium-Sealed 12Gb SAS HDD

Toshiba Electronic Europe GmbH announced its Enterprise Capacity 14TB ^[1] and 12TB helium-sealed SAS HDD models.

The MG07SCA Series features 7,200rpm performance, a 12Gb SAS interface ^[2], and Advanced Format Sector technology.

These HDD drives boast an industry, nine-disk helium-sealed design and 14TB or 12TB of Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) capacity for compatibility. The company’s helium-sealed design fits into industry standard 3.5-inch ^[3] drive bays.

The 9-disk helium-sealed design utilizes the firm’s precision laser welding process and a special top-cover design seals helium inside the drive, offering capacity and low power profile to the product. The SAS interface provides 12G/s transfer rate performance and dual port capability for data-path redundancy preferred by many storage solutions designers. The 14TB SAS model delivers an approximately 40% increase in maximum capacity compared to the company’s prior MG06 10TB SAS models.

“By utilizing an innovative 9-disk design, Toshiba provides both SAS and SATA models at an industry leading 14TB capacity while expanding the choice available to cloud scale and enterprise storage solutions customers,” said Larry Martinez-Palomo, GM, HDD business unit, Toshiba Electronics Europe. “Our 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^[4]) 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 ^[5] benefits with an amazingly low acquisition cost per gigabyte.“

The 14TB and 12TB helium-sealed SAS HDD models are available for sampling.

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^[1] Definition of capacity: 1TB is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer OS, however, reports storage capacity using powers of two for the definition of 1TB=240 =1,099,511,627,776 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 OS and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacities may vary.
^[2] Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions, and file size.
^[3] Form Factor: 3.5-inch means the form factor of HDDs. They do not indicate drive’s physical size.
^[4] Power efficiency is calculated based on active idle power consumption divided by formatted capacity.
^[5] TCO.