Toshiba Now Offers 10TB HDD for NAS Applications

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/05/2017 08:37 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Recently it was for Security solutions, now for NAS units, Toshiba announced the addition of "MN06ACA10T," a 10-terabyte (TB) hard disk drive (HDD) in a 3.5-inch form factor with a SATA interface. The drive is designed for home NAS and small office/home office applications.

Sample shipments start today, "MN06ACA10T" air-based HDD delivers 10 TB capacity by deploying an improved magnetic recording head and disk magnetic layer. The 10 TB capacity is 25% higher than that of the previous model in the series, the 8 TB MN05ACA800, and buffer size is doubled to 256 MiB. The new drive is designed for 24/7 power-on operation, has a rated annual workload of 180 TB transferred, MTTF of 1,000,000 hours, and 300,000 load/unload cycles. It features rotational vibration compensation technology, and is suitable for use in NAS applications.

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