Toshiba announces a roadmap for the development of mechanical hard drives: reaching 40TB capacity in fiscal 2026

At present, SSD can be said to be like the sun in the sky, basically everyone will SSD as the necessary hardware for installation, and the mechanical hard disk seems to have only the value of the storage disk, so compared with the SSD, the biggest advantage of the mechanical hard disk is only the super large capacity, so the major manufacturers have launched large-capacity mechanical hard disk to meet the super capacity storage needs including data centers. At present, the famous mechanical hard disk manufacturer Toshiba announced the latest roadmap at the investor conference, including the future Toshiba will launch a 30TB or even 40TB capacity of hard disks, of course, it is still far from now.

According to Toshiba's roadmap, Toshiba plans to launch a hard disk with a capacity of 26TB in fiscal 2022, based on MAS-MAMR technology, and by fiscal 2025, it will launch a 35TB capacity hard disk, based on HAMR technology, and a single hard disk is 10 disks, and by fiscal 2026 it will launch a hard disk with a capacity of more than 40TB, and will also use new storage technology, of course, fiscal 2026 is also 4 years away, and it is unknown whether there will be a jump in the middle.

At present, more and more data centers have begun to use ultra-large capacity SSDs as storage media to replace these mechanical hard disks, and I don't know what kind of surprises the rapidly developing SSD field can bring to consumers after Toshiba launches 40TB capacity hard disks.