Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Toshiba debuts ‘world’s first’ 7200rpm 5TB HDD for customers



This year all leading makers of disk drives unveiled HDDs of maximum 5TB or 6TB capacities for enterprise, nearline storage or NAS applications. Such onerous drives feature ~5400rpm or 7200rpm spindle speeds and rather extreme costs attributable to their positioning. sadly, neither Seagate, nor Western Digital, nor HGST have up to now introduced desktop-class 5TB HDDs with good performance designed for customers.

Toshiba PH3*00U-1I72 family of disk drives includes 4TB and 5TB models supported four or 5 1TB platters that feature perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. The new drives sport 7200rpm spindle speed, Serial ATA-6Gb/s interface and 128MB of cache to maximise performance. Toshiba declares average time interval of ten.5ms for its new HDDs.

Toshiba’s new 4TB and 5TB onerous drives with 7200rpm spindle speed were developed for client desktop computers in mind and thus aren't designed to be overpriced. at this time Toshiba sells its 4TB HDD for $239 and its 5TB HDD for $319 on-line within the U.S.

whereas Toshiba’s new high-capacity onerous drives square measure purported to be the foremost cheap 5TB 7200rpm HDDs within the market, they're not. Newegg, a number one on-line store within the U.S., offers HGST Deskstar NAS 7200rpm 5TB and 4TB disk drives for $249 and $184, severally. Desktop NAS drives square measure optimized for reads, writes and operative in RAID environments, that makes them quite smart for desktop usage generally. In fact, keeping in mind that Toshiba uses several Western Digital’s technologies for its three.5” HDDs, it's extremely seemingly that HGST Deskstar NAS and Toshiba’s new drives have lots in common.

While formally the most recent 5TB HDDs from Toshiba square measure the world’s 1st consumer-class 7200rpm drives of such high capability, in a very bid to form its new PH3*00U-1I72 family of disk drives common, Toshiba can got to slash costs of those merchandise within the short-run future. Since the drives aren't supported enterprise-class chassis or technologies, it mustn't be too onerous for Toshiba to form them more cost-effective.


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