Toshiba Gulf FZE has launched the new, 18TB MG09 Series hard disk drive.
The new drive features Toshiba’s third-generation, 9-disk Helium-sealed design and Toshiba’s innovative Flux Control – Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology, to advance Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) density to 2TB per disk, achieving a total capacity of 18TB.
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“Toshiba’s new 18TB MG09 Series delivers new levels of storage density and power efficiency to our cost-conscious cloud-scale and storage solutions customers. Our HDD technology is able to achieve our customers’ critical TCO objectives at a cost of pennies per GB,” said Shuji Takaoka, General Manager of the Storage Products Sales & Marketing Division at Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation.
“Our 3rd generation 9-disk Helium-sealed design provides a field-tested foundation for achieving a massive 18TB capacity. The addition of Toshiba’s innovative FC-MAMR technology advances CMR capacity to 18TB, delivering compatibility with the widest range of applications and operating environments,” he added.
Toshiba expects to make sample shipments of the 18TB MG09 Series HDD available to customers at the end of March 2021.
The new 18TB model represents a 12.5% capacity increase on the previous 16TB models. The MG09 is compatible with the widest range of applications and operating systems and is adapted to mixed random and sequential read and write workloads in both cloud-scale and traditional data center use cases.
‘’Toshiba Gulf FZE is excited to launch this new Cloud Scale Capacity Hard Disk Drive – 18TB MG09 Series drive in MEA markets to cater to the demand of high storage capacity & reliability for Cloud & On-premise data centers. This high capacity models help contribute to reduce TCO & lower cost per unit of Storage Capacity,” said Santosh Varghese, Vice President Middle East and Africa – Digital products and Services.
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