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. |
- 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.
- As of the time of the announcement.
- Milestones achieved before acquisition of Fujitsu built-in HDD business.
- Definition of capacity: A gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB = 230 = 1,073,741,824 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. 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.
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