Toshiba Corporation’s Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company announced the launch of a new line-up of HDDs, “MN Series”, for network attached storage (NAS) applications. Shipments start from today.
The new “MN Series” HDD line-up delivers up to 8 TB capacity in a 3.5-inch form factor with a SATA interface. The drives are designed for 24/7 power-on operation and have a rated annual workload of 180 TB transferred. They feature rotational vibration compensation technology and are suitable for use in home NAS and small office/home office (SOHO) NAS applications. The drives also have an 128 MiB buffer, and the 8 TB model achieves a data transfer rate of 230 MiB/s.
New HDD Line-up
- Formatted Capacity
- MN05ACA800: 8 TB
- MN05ACA600: 6 TB
- MN04ACA400: 4 TB
- Size (3.5-inch form factor):
- Height: 26.1 mm
- Width: 101.85 mm
- Length: 147 mm
Features
- 7,200 rpm
- SATA 6.0 Gbit/s Interface
- Workloads of up to 180 TB per year
- 24/7 operation
- MTTF of 1,000,000 hours
- Rotational vibration compensation technology
Applications
- Home and SOHO NAS
- Small business server and storage
- Archiving and data back-up
- Private cloud storage
