Overview
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation and its affiliates (Toshiba) supply a wide range of innovative hard disk drive (HDD) products to meet the varied demands of the diversified storage marketplace. Products include high capacity power-efficient storage for Cloud Data Centers, capacity and performance HDDs for Enterprise IT, client HDDs for PC/Desktop, and specialty drives for Surveillance, NAS systems, set-top box video, gaming and external storage. Toshiba aims to continue to advance HDD technologies and innovation to meet and exceed customer requirements across a broad spectrum of storage market segments.
Product and Market
The continuing progress of digitization, most recently the quickening expansion of IoT and the increasing reliance on cloud-based applications and services, means that more information is being generated and stored than ever before, and that the rate of its creation only continues to increase. The data centers and cloud-services-providers that use this data constantly require higher-capacity, higher-performance HDDs. In the client HDD market, notebook PCs and other client systems require higher capacity for recording high resolution images, video data and other creative content. In addition, today’s surveillance systems deploy more and higher definition cameras and store image data for longer periods in order to improve security. The latest surveillance systems offer live monitoring and streaming from networked cameras in remote locations. These image-heavy services require HDDs offering higher capacities and higher performance.
Toshiba provides a wide range of innovative HDD products to meet the varied demands of the diversified storage marketplace.
Data Center / Enterprise
Enterprise HDDs provide excellent quality and reliability for 24/7 operation required for storage systems and servers Our products are trusted by customers, and help improve TCO.
Internal / Specialty
Client HDDs provide the quality and reliability needed for applications such as Surveillance camera systems and NAS servers. Our broad lineup work for a range of applications.
Consumer Storage
Our consumer storage products makes it easy with a choice of spacious storage solutions for your desk, or your life on the move.
Leading Innovation
Toshiba has been providing storage solutions worldwide since 1969 and today is only Japanese company*2 taking a major role in HDDs' manufacturing and marketing. Toshiba was the first*3 to deliver 2.5-inch HDDs with glass media in 1991, and the first*3 HDD manufacturer to commercialize PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) for HDDs in 2005. Toshiba has consistently produced products for major OEM who require business flexibility and product customization.
Toshiba has also worked diligently with partners and suppliers to achieve and sustain a leadership position in product quality.
Leveraging continual investment in research and development, we continue to push the boundaries of storage technology to meet the evolving needs of our customers.
*2 Source: Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, as of March, 2018.
*3 As of the time of the announcement
R&D
Toshiba R&D facilities, product planning, development, design, manufacturing / production control, procurement, supply chain and quality, are centralized in Yokohama, Japan. Support provided through a one-team structure is capable of swift decision making. Toshiba can quickly make decisions and establish product plans and product strategies for meet changing market needs. And, Toshiba has an HDD factory and a product development center in the Philippines with a one-hour time difference with Japan. Toshiba is capable of close communication between manufacture base and Yokohama and realizing more efficient product development. In addition, much of the component supplier base for the global HDD industry grew-up and continues to reside in Japan, helping to position Toshiba well for future HDD technology advancement. By developing and applying useful technologies and knowledge within the Toshiba Group of companies, and by providing technologies and closely partnering with suppliers, Toshiba is able to continually advance in process efficiency and quality improvement.
