Toshiba starts shipping SMR MAMR enterprise hard drives offering up to 34TB of storage

What the Byte: Toshiba has announced a new series of hard disk drives designed for data center and enterprise customers. Just in time for World Backup Day, the drives feature significant technological upgrades and a slew of industry acronyms – although a HAMR-based unit has yet to appear.

Toshiba's M12 Series of 3.5-inch drives uses Shingled Magnetic Recording to achieve storage capacities ranging from 30 to 34TB. The Japanese corporation – one of the world's largest HDD manufacturers alongside Seagate and Western Digital – said the new line of drives is specifically designed for hyperscale customers, cloud service providers, and large-scale data center operations.

Toshiba introduced the M12 Series on World Backup Day, emphasizing the importance of regular backups to protect valuable data. The need for backups and larger storage drives is now more critical than ever due to cloud computing, "data-hungry" AI technologies, and the growing demand for video ...