Toshiba Announces 16-Terabyte MG08 Series Hard Disk Drives

Toshiba announces MG08 Series, the industry’s largest capacity 16 TB Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD. With 33% more capacity than today’s widely adopted 12 TB drives, and 14% more capacity than prior 14 TB models, MG08 16 TB drives are compatible with the widest range of applications and operating systems, and adapted to mixed random and sequential read and write...

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HAMR don’t hurt ’em—laser-assisted hard drives are coming in 2020

reader comments 116 with 78 posters participating, including story author [1] Share this story Share on Facebook[2] Share on Twitter[3] Share on Reddit[4] This Seagate photo shows a HAMR actuator with its laser active. Seagate[5] This Seagate photo shows a HAMR head with its laser activated. Seagate[6] This Seagate animation gives you an idea of the scale of the heating...

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