[AnandTech] Toshiba announces 5TB 3.5-inch Enterprise Hard Drive

[octoberasian]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7760/5tb-35-enterprise-hdd-from-toshiba-announced

These new drives will fall under the MG04 heading, succeeding the MG03 range. Some of these drives also feature Persistent Write Cache Technology, which Toshiba states improves application performance and data-loss protection. The drives will be equipped with either 6Gb/s SAS (MG04SCA) or 6Gb/s SATA (MG04ACA) interfaces, and can also be supplied with Toshiba’s Sanitize Instant Erase (SIE) functionality.

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The SIE drives have models that support either 512e or 4Kn format storage modes for modern performance or legacy applications. The drives are quoted with a 4.17ms average latency time, 8.5-9.5ms read/write seek time and a sustained transfer speed of 205 MiB/s. MTTF is at 1.2m hours, with idle power quoted as 6.2W, with 11.3W during read/write operations. The internal buffer for SATA drives is set at 128 MiB, with SAS drives having 64 MiB.


No information was given about release date and pricing – given the enterprise focus that Toshiba Electronics Europe is giving this product, I would imagine the focus would turn to local Toshiba representatives for individual pricing.

 

[ep0x73]

Made in the Philippines, that's a new one. Since Toshiba under the ruling picked up a lot of WD tech and engineers one should wonder how long before WD/HGST announce they too have 5TB.
Seagate is already going to launch a 6TB HE drive, probably just reverse engineered the one from HGST.

Good for us, it will knock the top 4TB drives down in price.