High capacity enterprise Cloud HDD

New drives combine 6TB with 7,200 RPM performance.

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Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a high-capacity addition to the MC04 Series launched in May of last year. The new 6TB[1] version of the MC04 Series of enterprise high-capacity HDDs is designed for bulk storage systems and servers supporting cloud-based applications and scale-out workloads. With an industry standard 3.5-inch form factor, the MC04 Series delivers 7,200 revolutions per minute (RPM) performance, enabling suitable service levels for high performance cloud-based applications and storage.


Toshiba’s highest capacity enterprise cloud HDD delivers a 20 per cent increase over the previous generation’s 5TB capacity, providing more efficient high-density, high-growth storage for multi-petabyte rack deployments. Furthermore, the newest addition to the MC04 Series improves ROI for scale-out storage solutions with a 20 per cent increase in power efficiency (TB/W) over previous generations, enabling more cost-effective delivery of cloud storage services.

The MC04 Series is optimised for lower tier workloads in high capacity, scale-out cloud-based storage and server use cases and supports the industry-standard 180TB transferred per year workload rating. The MC04 Series is also available in 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, and 5TB capacities. The HDD Series features SATA 6.0 Gbit/s[2] interface speeds and Advanced Format sector technology, enabling both higher areal density and compatibility with legacy applications and operating environments.

“Today’s cloud-based infrastructures require cost-effective, increased storage capacity,” said Martin Larsson, vice president of Toshiba Electronics Europe, Storage Products Division. “With up to 6TB capacity and 7,200RPM performance, the Toshiba MC04 Series delivers an optimized balance of enterprise capacity, workload, and performance required by our customers’ high data growth cloud use-cases.”

“PROMISE develops innovative storage solutions that address the capacity, performance and efficiency requirements of the world’s largest organizations and the most demanding data center environments,” said John van den Elzen, Managing Director EMEA of PROMISE Technology. “Toshiba’s MC04 Enterprise Cloud Hard Disk Drive Series and the new 6TB version have proven to be an excellent complement, both technically and commercially, to our line of cost-efficient, high-performance cloud storage solutions.”

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