Toshiba USA issued an announcement today stating that the company’s nearline hard drive shipment capacity will continue to lead its competitors in 2020, with a growth rate of 35%.
Trendforce, a research institute, stated, ‘Toshiba’s first 9-disk helium hard drive is excellent and very competitive in the field of near-line hard drives. This means that the company has the ability to develop higher-capacity near-line hard drives.
Toshiba 9-disk helium hard drives, the advent of disk drives directly contributed to the company’s highest growth rate for its nearline storage platform in 5 years.’
Nearline Store devices are used to store data that does not require frequent read and write access, but they are required to be always online and can be quickly read when needed. Hard for such an environment is called a ‘nearline hard’ (Nearline HDD), the main component of the data storage server center.
In the announcement, Middle East also said that the expansion of global digital content has caused explosive growth in the demand for storage devices in data centers. In 2020, the total capacity of global HDD mechanical hard disk shipments has reached 1ZB, which is 1 billion TB.
his tests the ability of mechanical hard drive manufacturers to provide low-cost, high-performance hard drives in the market. Kyle Yamamoto, Vice President of HDD Marketing and Commercial Department of Toshiba America, said, ‘The average capacity of each hard drive we shipped has grown rapidly, and the total shipment volume has risen by nearly 9 times in just 5 years.
This is very important to the work of the company’s HDD team. Efficiency is proposed for the postgraduate entrance examination. We will increase the R&D and support for cloud storage data centers and have great confidence in the future.”
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