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Toshiba outs 5TB 7200rpm enterprise HDDs

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Toshiba has officially launched its new 5TB enterprise HDDs from the MG04 series spinning at 7200rpm. Designed for the mid-range servers and cloud applications in mind, the new Toshiba MG04 HDD is based on 1TB platters and comes in 2TB, 3TB, 4TB as well as 5TB variants.

The MG04 HDDs feature 7200 spindle-speed and either 64MB or 128MB cache. Naturally, they utilize the SAS-6Gb/s interface (as opposed to ATA-6GB/s) and are quite power efficient. Maximum power consumption is rated at 11.3W, while in idle the drives consume between 6W and 6.2W.

Digging into the specs sheet, we find the MG04 series of disks support 4K advanced format sector technology in addition to optional persistent write cache, which helps protect data against sudden power loss.

Toshiba will begin shipping the new hard drives this month, but pricing isn’t yet detailed. Western Digital and Seagate are hard at work to bring their high-capacity HDDs to the market as well. Both of them will be 6TB, so Toshiba won’t stay at the top for long.

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