Toshiba Begins Sample Shipments of 4TB HDDs

Toshiba Corporation announced that samples of two new large capacity nearline HDDs are available.

The 3.5-inch 7,200 rpm MG Series includes both SATA and SAS versions, MG03ACA400 and MG03SCA400 respectively, that deliver 4TB of storage, the largest capacity yet offered by Toshiba.

Samples of lower capacity models in each series are also available.

The 3.5-inch 7,200 rpm MG Series includes both SATA and SAS versions, MG03ACA400 and MG03SCA400 respectively.

As business works to keep up with the explosion of unstructured data, large capacity HDDs are crucial tools in IT systems designed to organize and access fast growing reservoirs of valuable information. The capacities of the MG Series drives are suited to RAID storage and arrays, tiered virtual infrastructures for public and private cloud deployments, archives and disk-based backup.

To help protect sensitive data from improper disclosure, both the MG03SCA400 series and MG03ACA400 series support a sanitize overwrite function that allows IT administrators to write a predetermined data pattern across the entire user storage area on the disk, effectively erasing all previously written data. The sanitize overwrite operation can be performed before re-allocation, redeployment or retirement of the storage device.
                        

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