Toshiba announces new HDD roadmap: 30TB hard drives coming in fiscal 2023

Hiroyuki Sato, President, and CEO of Toshiba Electronic Components and Storage Corporation (TDSC) announced the roadmap for Toshiba’s next-generation hard drives at an investor relations event held recently in Tokyo, Japan. Data continues to grow at double-digit annual rates, and the need for data storage in the cloud is driving the need for higher-capacity hard drives. To meet the surging market demand, Toshiba plans to utilize its proprietary technologies, including FC-MAMR (Flux-Controlled – Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording) technology, MAS-MAMR (Microwave Assisted Switching – Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording) technology, and disk stacking technology will increase the hard disk capacity to 30TB or more by the fiscal year 2023 (April 2023 to March 2024).

Toshiba said it will work closely with cloud service providers to understand their requirements for capacity and performance, and Toshiba’s next-generation technology is the key to meeting customer needs. Toshiba’s years of close cooperation with key component suppliers have had a profound impact on technological breakthroughs, ultimately reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of its hard drives as drive capacities increase.

According to previously published information, Toshiba’s MAS-MAMR technology will use microwaves to greatly change the magnetic coercivity of hard disk media, making the track narrower and thus increasing the area density.

Toshiba currently offers a comprehensive line of hard drives to meet the storage needs of the enterprise, data center, surveillance, and client markets. Its hard drives are mainly for four market segments, and the AL series focuses on enterprise-level performance fields; the MG series is aimed at enterprise-level capacity and data center needs; the MQ series covers mobile clients and a wide range of usage scenarios; the DT series is aimed at monitoring and traditional desktop client applications.