Toshiba has announced new hard drives with a storage capacity of 5 terabytes released. The Japanese manufacturer focuses on the business market and, for example, comes next to sata models are also variants that have a sas interface.
The Toshiba MG04 drives support, among others, the Advanced Format 4K technology, which sectors of 4 kb instead of 512 bytes bet to the amount of overhead to reduce. The omission of the empty spaces between sectors and ecc blocks would be the usable capacity of a hard drive which is to raise. Advanced Format 512e emulation for compatibility with older equipment worries, stresses, Toshiba.
The 3.5″-Toshiba drives rotate at 7200rpm, and the maximum capacity is 5 terabytes. The SAS MG04SCA drives feature a sas interface, while the SATA MG04ACA variants a sata 6Gbit/s interface. Further details made Toshiba is not yet known.
