Milestones

Today Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation and its affiliates (Toshiba) is the storage supplier that owns design, development, manufacturing, sales and other infrastructure functions spanning the enterprise, mobile and retail environments for hard disk drive (HDD) storage products. As one of the leading providers of integrated storage solutions, Toshiba sets many of today’s industry standards for storage technology.
It has remained at the forefront of the storage industry for almost a half of century and has helped product designers realize new and exciting applications that were previously just a figment of someone’s imagination with several new breakthroughs as listed below.
Toshiba will inspire the future of storage technologies with considerable and dedicated research and development.

Calendar Year
Milestones Note
2022 Released the 3.5-inch neaerling HDD of CMR 20TB recording capacity with 10 disks. *2
2021 Developed the 3.5-inch nearline HDD of the industry’s largest capacity CMR 18TB and SMR 20TB with Flux Control–Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology. *2
2019 Released 3.5 inch nearline HDD with the industry’s largest capacity 16TB with CMR(Conventional Magnetic Recording). *2
2017
Released the 3.5-inch nearline HDD with the industry's largest storage capacity of 14 TB, which is using company's first helium-sealed design and the world's first 9 disks. *2
2015 Achieved the industry's largest areal density of 1 Tbpsi (Tera bit per square inch, Tera: 1012) with 2.5-inch HDD. *2
2014 Launched Toshiba's first enterprise capacity HDD optimized for servers supporting cloud-based applications and analytic workloads.  
Released Toshiba's first high capacity HDD for surveillance applications.  
Toshiba's self-encrypting HDD was validated to government-class security requirements.  
Released the industry's largest-class storage capacity up to 600GB in a 15,000rpm 2.5-inch HDD design. *2
Released 3.5-inch nearline enterprise HDD with the industry's largest 5TB recording capacity. *2
2013 Released Toshiba's first two-platter 7mm-height HDD delivering up to industry's largest-class 1TB of storage capacity. *2
Launched Toshiba's first 7,278rpm 2.5-inch HDD series with 7mm-height.  
Launched industry's largest capacity of 320GB automotive-grade HDD. *2
Expanded SSHD lineup with Toshiba's first 7mm-height models.  
Announced the new security features of self-encrypting drive (SED) and supporting cryptographic-erase.  
Shipped 26 million Automotive-Grade HDDs.  
2012 Start shipment of the industry largest class 4TB storage capacity nearline HDD. *2
Completed acquisition of HDD manufacturing equipment and transfer of HDD manufacturing facility from Western Digital. Started shipment of 3.5-inch HDD for consumer products. *1
Launched enterprise 2.5-inch HDD in industry's highest capacity class up to 900GB for drives with 10,500rpm rotation speed. *2
Began volume production of SSHD, combining the performance of NAND with the capacity of HDD.  
2011 Launched 2.5-inch HDD with industry's first series of self-encrypting drives (SED) equipped with wipe technology. *2
2010 Announced wipe technology for Self-Encrypting HDD.  
Introduced industry's highest areal density 2.5-inch 750GB HDD. *2
2009 Toshiba acquired Fujitsu built-in HDD business, creating the broadest portfolio of products in the storage industry. *1 *2
Industry's first HDD manufacturer to meet the OPAL encryption specification. *2 *3
2008 Brought SATA technology to automotive HDDs.  
2007 Entered personal storage market with a line of portable USB 2.0 external hard drives.  
Achieved Toshiba's 5,000,000 units' shipment of automotive HDD.  
2005 Achieved Toshiba's 100,000,000 units' shipment of whole Toshiba HDD.  
Commercialized the industry's first PMR (Perpendicular magnetic recording) HDD. *2
2004 AAnnounced the industry's first 2.5-inch SAS Enterprise HDD. *2 *3
Released 0.85-inch HDD and recognized in the Guinness World Records for world's smallest HDD. *1
Released the industry's first 2.5-inch SATA HDD. *2 *3
2001 Released the industry's first automotive HDD. *2
2000 Debuted the first high-volume 1.8-inch HDD with the storage capacity of 5GB in 5mm height. *2
1998 Achieved Toshiba's 20,000,000 units' shipment of HDD in total.  
Released the industry's first 2.5-inch HDD that utilized GMR (Giant magnetoresistive) head. *2
1996 Achieved Toshiba's 10,000,000 units' shipment of HDD in total.  
1995 Started TIP (Toshiba Information Equipment (Philippines), Inc.) manufacturing operation.  
1994 Achieved Toshiba's 5,000,000 units' shipment of HDD in total.  
1991 Started volume production of the industry's first HDD with Glass Platters. *2
1990 Started shipment of 2.5-inch HDD.  
1987 Started volume production of Toshiba's first 3.5-inch HDD.  
1984 Started volume production of Toshiba's first 5.25-inch HDD.  
1983 Started volume production of Toshiba's first 8-inch HDD.  
1980 Released the industry's first 10.5-inch HDD. *2 *3
1969 Started shipment of Toshiba's first HDD with 14-inch.  
1967 Entered HDD industry.  
  1. Western Digital is a registered trademark or trademark of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Fujitsu is a registered trademark or trademark of Fujitsu Limited. Guinness World Records is a trademark of Guinness World Records Limited.
  2. As of the time of the announcement.
  3. Milestones achieved before acquisition of Fujitsu built-in HDD business.
  • Definition of capacity: One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes, but storage capacity actually available may vary depending on operating environment and formatting.  Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content.  Actual formatted capacity may vary.
  • "-inch" means the form factors of HDDs. They do not indicate drive’s physical size.
  • CMR: Conventional Magnetic Recording

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