Through one of its representatives at the Huawei Connect
conference in Shanghai, China, Toshiba is apparently indicating that it is
preparing to launch a new 14TB helium hard drive model in the near future or at
the end of 2017.
The largest capacity HDD currently available is the 12TB
Seagate and Western Digital HGST divisions aimed at the enterprise market,
which contains a single propulsion solution and also comes with helium. But if
by the end of this year Toshiba to realize its goal to release HDD 14TB, of
course the Japanese manufacturers are directly holds the top position in
presenting the capacity of the world's largest hard drive.
While slightly reviewing Toshiba's newly announced hard drive
production plan in January, Seagate is said to have plans to release a 16TB HDD
sometime in 2018 and then 20TB HDD will follow in 2020 to come. Realizing this,
Seagate is likely to release a new 14TB hard drive model at least as early as
the end of 2017 and no later than the first half of next year.
The plan to bring a 14TB hard drive may be a major
breakthrough for Toshiba in person. Currently the most popular Toshiba hard
drive model is carried by the 8TB N300 model built for network attached storage
(NAS). Featuring a 6Gbps SATA interface, a rotational speed of 7,200 RPM and
128MB of cache, the hard drive is said to be capable of delivering a sustained
data transfer rate of 240MB / s.
Due to its lack of air density, Helium gas seems to have an
appeal that can significantly decrease the internal friction elements that
occur on hard disk disks. The super-light gas support also practically opens
the way for faster speeds and increases existing storage density.