15 March 2017

Toshiba MN Series HDDs

Designed to fill a value gap between high-end and entry-level hard disk drives, Toshiba has introduced the first three of its MN Series HDDs.

The 3.5-inch form factor drives are available in 4TB, 6TB and 8TB, and are said to deliver 7,200rpm rotational latency performance.

Features include a 6Gbps SATA interface, 1,000,000 hour MTTF rating, and a rated annual workload of 180TB transferred. Toshiba says they are designed for 24/7 power-on operation and have rotational vibration compensation to help provide consistent performance in tower and low-density style multi-drive enclosures, such as small NAS devices.

It adds that targeted applications for the new drives include mid-level, entry-level and small office/home office NAS storage enclosures, remote office backup and archival storage and home multimedia data archive and fixed-content object storage.

Toshiba has also released new internal 2.5 inch/7mm solid state drives. It says the A100 series allows users to quickly and easily increase the storage and performance of their PCs.

Available in 240GB and 120GB capacities, they are said to combine 3-bit-per-cell 15nm flash memory with Toshiba’s controller and SLC (single-level cell) cache technology.