Toshiba launches new MN07 series hard drives designed for NAS platforms to meet OEM and integrator requirements

^{Toshiba has announced the launch of its MN07 series of 12TB [1]} and 14TB 3.5-inch ^[2] hard drives for NAS platforms . Toshiba’s MN07 series uses a helium-sealed mechanical design to achieve capacities of up to 14TB and 12TB. The 14TB model improves operating efficiency by approximately 55% compared to the previous 10TB “air-type” 7,200rpm mechanical design.

The MN07 series is designed for NAS devices with eight or more drive bays and is suitable for NAS file and object storage devices with an annual drive workload rating of up to 180TB ^[3] . The MN07 model features rotational vibration (RV) technology and Advanced Format (AF) 512e sector technology. In addition, both devices can achieve 24/7 operation, have an excellent reliability of 1 million hours MTTF ^[4] , and are compatible with popular third-party 3.5-inch NAS hard drive enclosures.

“Toshiba’s new MN07 series delivers proven NAS-class performance and reliability, and Toshiba’s proprietary 9-drive helium-sealed mechanical design delivers real value to OEMs and integrators who are leveraging proven network storage technologies to deliver file and object storage solutions,” said Shuji Takaoka, Director of Storage Business Unit at Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation. “MN07 models feature Rotational Vibration (RV) technology to optimize multi-drive NAS enclosure performance and can deliver up to 300,000 load/unload cycles for 24/7 reliability.”

Note:

1. Definition of capacity: Toshiba defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Because a computer operating system reports storage capacity using powers of 2, i.e., 1TB = 2 ³⁰ = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, the storage capacity shown is less than the nominal value. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system (such as Microsoft Operating System and/or pre-installed software applications) or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.

2. Inches: “3.5 inches” refers to the size of the HDD or SSD, not the physical inches of the drive.
3. Workload refers to the amount of data written, read, or verified by host system commands and is used to measure data throughput per year.

4. MTTF (Mean Time to Failure) is not a guarantee or estimate of product life; it is a statistical value related to the average failure rate of a large number of products and may not accurately reflect actual operation. The actual operating life of the product may differ from the MTTF.