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Toshiba Begins to Sample High-Capacity Enterprise-Class Hard Drives
Toshiba Corp. on Wednesday began to ship samples of two new large capacity nearline hard disk drives (HDDs). The 3.5” 7200rpm Toshiba MG-series includes both Serial ATA and SAS version that deliver 4TB of storage, the largest capacity yet offered by Toshiba. Samples of lower capacity models in each series are also available. Available in 1TB, 2TB, 3TB and 4TB capacities, Toshiba MG-series drives feature Serial ATA-6Gb/s or SAS-6Gb/s interfaces, 7200rpm rotation speed and feature 64MB DRAM buffers. The highest-capacity model utilizes Toshiba’s latest five-platter mechanical design, which enables 100% increase in capacity over Toshiba’s prior business-critical models while improving the power-profile and operational efficiency in the industry-standard 3.5” form-factor. …