Toshiba Electronic Components and Storage Devices Corporation (referred to as “Toshiba”) announced that it and the Dongguan near-line hard disk production line cooperated by AFIT Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (AFIT for short) was completed in Dongguan. The capacity of this production line will be given priority to the Chinese market. After the completion of the new production line, coupled with the original production capacity, by 2025, Toshiba is expected to double its production capacity by 2020.
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Toshiba’s 2021 hard drive shipments and shipping capacity grew by 4% and 61% respectively, with total shipments reaching 54.68 million units and a capacity of 187.5EB, including a 73% jump in near-line hard drive shipments and a 114% soar in shipping capacity.
Toshiba has developed various new technologies, including FC-MAMR (Magnetic Energy Control – Microwave Assisted Recording Technology), MAS-MAMR (Resonant Microwave Assisted Recording Technology) and disc stacking recording technologies. Toshiba hopes to achieve the 30TB hard drive capacity target first, and then move on to higher-capacity products.
Nearline hard drives are primarily positioned for applications between customers’ online and offline storage. It refers to the storage of data that is not frequently used, or that does not have a large amount of data access, on a storage device with lower performance. But at the same time, the device requirements for these are rapidly addressed and have high transfer rates. Near-line storage has relatively low-performance requirements, but requires relatively good access performance, along with large capacity.
