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TOSHIBA LAUNCHES ITS FIRST 3TB HDD WITH 1TB PER PLATTER
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Toshiba re-enters 3.5-inch form factor HDD market with new range of drives
08 August, 2012, Dusseldorf – Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE), Storage
Products Division has today announced its first family of HDDs with a 1TB per platter
capacity
1
.The new range will deliver high capacity of up to 3TB with uncompromised
performance for PCs and consumer electronic applications such as gaming PCs and
external HDDs. A video stream model will also be available for set–top boxes and
digital video recorders.
Consumers worldwide are becoming data hoarders, it’s estimated that last year alone
3.6 billion song downloads were purchased
2
. Growth in video consumption means
that the global market for set top boxes is now 228 million devices annually
3
, a figure
that doesn’t include the fact there is also an increased trend towards consuming
content on other ‘connected devices’ such as games consoles, computers and
tablets.
Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) need the storage to match this ever
increasing demand. The DT01ABA range provides up to 3TB of capacity with a
spindle speed of 5,940 or 5,700 RPM. This combined with the 6Gb/s SATA for higher
data transfer speed and 32MB cache buffer, means that even terabytes of data can
be accessed quickly.
These will be the first Toshiba products to demonstrate new technologies acquired
from the successful takeover of Western Digital’s 3.5-inch HDD manufacturing
equipment and related intellectual properties earlier in the year. The new range of
drives uses 4KB Advanced Format, to fully utilise valuable disk real estate and
deliver 1TB per platter.
1
*Definition of Capacity: TOSHIBA defines a megabyte(MB) as 1,000,000bytes, a gigabyte(GB) as
1,000,000,000 bytes, and a terabyte(TB) as 1,000,000,000,000bytes.
2
http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/DMR2012.pdf
3
http://www.vodprofessional.com/news/3q12/global-set-top-box-shipments-to-reach-228-million-
units-in-2012/