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Toshiba releases new family of helium sealed HDDs

by on10 September 2024


Give your data a squeaky voice

Toshiba has released its new Mx11 family of helium-sealed high-capacity HDDs.

The Mx11 family includes the MG11 Series, which provides capacities of up to 24TB  using conventional magnetic recording (CMR), and the MA11 Series which offers up to 28TB capacities with shingled magnetic recording (SMR).

Tosh claims that the Mx11 family will deliver higher density and power efficiency for punters wanting to step up their data storage with all this AI lark.

Both products feature a 10-disk, helium-sealed, standard 3.5-inch, 7,200rpm design that uses Toshiba’s flux control microwave assisted magnetic recording (FC-MAMR) technology.

Engineered for higher performance and 24/7 reliability, the Mx11 family is designed with a 1GiB  buffer, a workload rating of 550TB per year, an MTTF/MTBF of 2.5 million hours, and an AFR of 0.35 per cent, a spokesTosh says.

Built with a 1GiB buffer, the new 24TB HDD is faster than its predecessor, with an approximately 9% faster maximum sustained transfer speed of 295MiB/s. With a choice of 6Gbps SATA or 12Gbps SAS interfaces, the MG11 Series is designed to support data storage, online backup and archive, and video surveillance applications.

 In addition to 24TB, the MG11 Series is available in 22TB, 20TB, 18TB, 16TB and 14TB capacities with sanitise instant erase (SIE) and self-encrypting drive (SED) options for enhanced security.

The MA11 Series achieves 2.8TB per disk using SMR technology. The MA11 Series host-managed SMR increases drive capacity by overlapping the physical tracks on the disk during write operations.

Data centres with software that can optimise the MA11 Series host-managed SMR design will benefit from improved cost efficiencies through higher storage densities. The new MA11 Series is available in 28TB and 27TB capacities with a 6Gbps SATA interface and with SED options for enhanced security.

Toshiba’s Storage Products Sales & Marketing Division General Manager Atsushi Toyama claimed the Mx11 family delivers new levels of capacity and total cost of ownership (TCO) efficiency enabling customers to optimise operational costs while expanding their data centre infrastructure.

Sample shipments of the MG11 Series will start this month, and the MA11 Series in the fourth calendar quarter of this year. No word on price yet.

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