Toshiba Announces 6TB Enterprise Cloud Hard Drive

TOSHIBA ANNOUNCES ITS HIGHEST CAPACITY ENTERPRISE CLOUD HDD

New drives combine 6TB with 7,200 RPM performance

IRVINE, Calif., June 29, 2015 The Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., a committed technology leader, announces a new, high-capacity addition to the MC04 Series launched in May of last year. The 6TB[1] version of the MC04 Series of enterprise high-capacity HDDs is designed for bulk storage systems and servers supporting cloud-based applications and scale-out workloads. With an industry standard 3.5-inch form factor, the MC04 Series delivers 7,200 revolutions per minute (RPM) performance[2], enabling suitable service levels for high performance cloud-based applications and storage.

Toshibas highest capacity enterprise cloud HDD delivers a 20 percent increase over the previous generations 5TB capacity, enabling more efficient high-density, high-growth storage for multi-petabyte rack deployments. Furthermore, the newest addition to the MC04 Series improves ROI for scale-out storage solutions with a 20 percent increase in power efficiency (TB/W) over previous generations, enabling more cost-effective delivery of cloud storage services.

The MC04 Series is also available in 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, and 5TB capacities and supports the industry-standard 180TB transferred per year workload rating, optimizing it for lower tier workloads in high capacity, scale-out cloud-based storage and server use cases. The entire MC04 Series of HDDs features SATA 6Gbit/s[3] interface speeds and Advanced Format sector technology, enabling both higher aerial density and compatibility with legacy applications and operating environments.

Todays cloud-based infrastructures require cost-effective, increased storage capacity, said Scott Wright, director of disk drive product marketing at Toshiba Storage Products Business Unit. With up to 6TB capacity and 7,200 RPM performance, the Toshiba MC04 Series delivers an optimized balance of enterprise capacity, workload, and performance required by our customers high data growth cloud use-cases.

Toshibas MC04 Series proved very capable during our intense regression testing, while Toshibas responsive customer service greatly simplified our evaluation process, said Paul Turner, chief marketing officer at Cloudian. Toshibas breadth of capacity and 7,200 RPM performance positions us to build cost-efficient cloud storage that provides exceptional service levels to customers.

The 6TB MC04 Series samples will be available in August 2015. For more information on Toshibas portfolio of industry-leading solid state drives, hard drives and hybrid storage solutions, visit www.toshibastorage.com.

About Toshiba Storage Products

Toshiba Corporation and its affiliates offer one-of-a-kind global storage solutions, offering hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state drives (SSDs) and NAND flash memories technologies that drive a wide range of consumer electronics, computer and automotive applications, as well as enterprise solutions for the global marketplace. Toshiba is a leader in the development, design and manufacture of mobile, consumer and enterprise hard disk drives and solid state drives. In North America, the Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., markets high-quality storage peripherals to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, value-added resellers, value-added dealers, systems integrators and distributors worldwide. Inherent in the Toshiba storage family are the high-quality engineering and manufacturing capabilities that have established Toshiba products as innovation leaders worldwide.

About Toshiba Corp. and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)

Through proven commitment, lasting relationships and advanced, reliable electronic components, Toshiba enables its customers to create market-leading designs. Toshiba is the heartbeat within product breakthroughs from OEMs, ODMs, CMs, VARs, distributors and fabless chip companies worldwide. A committed electronic components leader, Toshiba designs and manufactures high-quality flash memory-based storage solutions, solid state drives (SSDs), hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state hybrid drives (SSHDs), discrete devices, custom SoCs/ASICs, imaging products, microcontrollers, wireless components, mobile peripheral devices, advanced materials and medical tubes that make possible todays leading smartphones, tablets, cameras, medical devices, automotive electronics, industrial applications, enterprise solutions and more.

[1] Definition of capacity: Toshiba defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB = 2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, such as Microsoft Operating System and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.

[2] Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions, and file size.

[3] Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions, and file size.