OCP Global Summit: Marvell HDD Controller for Toshiba 16TB Enterprise HDD

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. announced that its HDD drive controller and preamplifier are shipping in Toshiba Electronic Devices and Storage Corporation‘s 16TB enterprise capacity HDD family of products.

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Toshiba’s 16TB HDD product offering, unveiled in January of this year, is the first 16TB capacity conventional magnetic recording (CMR) HDD adapted for both cloud and traditional data center applications. This product delivers CMR storage capacity by utilizing two-dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) technology and signal processing enabled by Marvell. Addressing the demands of modern data center and cloud storage infrastructure deployments, these HDDs offer the flexibility to cope with a diverse array of different workloads while meeting the TCO objectives required by cloud-scale data center customers.

The company’s HDD controller offers read channel technology, ECC IP and enhanced power efficiency while the preamplifier enables advanced TDMR recording head technology and supports Toshiba’s 9-disk architecture. By closely coupling the HDD controller and preamplifier designs, the firm is able to develop a chipset solution that delivers HDD capacity leadership.

“Marvell’s cutting-edge HDD controller and preamplifier devices have proved pivotal in bringing our 16TB HDD to market. This well-matched combination provides the elevated performance and expansive feature sets needed to develop the world’s largest enterprise capacity HDD using conventional magnetic recording,” said Kyle Yamamoto, VP, HDD operations and marketing Americas, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. “The Marvell engineering team helped us achieve best-in-class capacity while meeting our performance, reliability, power consumption and signal integrity requirements.“

“With compelling HDD controller and preamplifier products supporting the growing data center segment, Marvell is well positioned to support the increasing EB demand that our HDD customers require,” said Matt Kim, senior director, HDD product marketing, Marvell. “This design achievement with Toshiba is a major endorsement of Marvell’s leading HDD IP capabilities, highlighting the value of our engineering expertise and trusted partnership. Marvell is committed to continuing to invest in HDD technology in order to extend our market leadership.“

The HDD solutions was displayed at the OCP U.S. Summit 2019 in San Jose, CA.