Toshiba Announces New 3.5-inch hard drives up to 3TB


After the inclusion of Samsung's hard disk manufacturing, Seagate and Western Digital's acquisition of the hard disk drive business of Hitachi, the number of global manufacturers of 3.5-inch hard disks melted temporarily practically 2 - with corresponding fears that the two players could use their privileged position to the prices in this market segment to keep up. Now, however, announced the third remaining hard drive manufacturer Toshiba, also re-enter the mass production of 3.5-inch drives. Most recently, the Japanese supplier next SSDs mainly 2.5-inch drives and 3.5-inch models selected with smaller capacity on offer.

In the course of antitrust restrictions in the HGST acquisition by WD, the number had one of the industry, however, separated from some manufacturing capacity, which then went to Toshiba. First, in view of the consumer market Toshiba brings even more over the course of August, two new product lines with capacities up to 3TB on the market. The model DT01ACA with Serial ATA 3.0 interface, and 7.200 U / min in the capacity levels of 1.5, 2 and 3 TB is trimmed primarily on performance, while the series DT01ABA was designed with lower speeds for applications that require the lowest possible energy consumption. For the special requirements of streaming video - for example, digital video recorders or set-top boxes - Toshiba offers two product lines in addition to a separate "V-Series".

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