Toshiba S300
Toshiba S300 is a hard drive family created by Toshiba. This family consists of a mixture of rebranded Toshiba MD04-V, Toshiba DT02-V, Toshiba DT02-VH, Toshiba DT01-V and Toshiba MD06-V (for the Pro versions only) families.[1] Regular S300s are 5,400 RPM or 5,700 RPM and contain SMR models, whereas the S300 Pros exclusively contain 7,200 CMR drives.
History
The Toshiba S300 family was announced in 2018, along with the Toshiba V300 series. Along with the arrival of this series came a rebrand of the labels to add more colours, especially to the family name.[2]
In 2020, along with the announcement of the initial two SMR models, the S300 7,200 drives were split into their own subfamily, the S300 Pro.[3][lower-alpha 1] In 2021, a new set of 256 MiB cache models were released, namely the HDWT840 and HDWT860, which are 4 and 6 TB respectively.[4]
Products
S300 (regular)
CMR 5,400 RPM
SMR 5,400 RPM 128 MiB cache
CMR 5,700 RPM
SMR 5,400 RPM 256 MiB cache
S300 Pro
CMR 7,200 RPM
Trivia
- The S300 drives are the only family to mix native Toshiba and Hitachi HDAs under one family (native Toshiba HDAs are in the HDWT1xx and the entire S300 Pro series, Hitachi HDAs in the SMRs and HDWV110).
References
- ↑ "Toshiba - Internal Hard Drives - S300". Toshiba.
- ↑ Shilov, Anton. "Toshiba Launches S300 and V300 HDDs for Surveillance and Video Applications". Anandtech. Archived from the original on 17 March 2021.
- ↑ "Toshiba expands its Surveillance Hard Disk Drive series". Toshiba. 27 August 2021.
- ↑ "Toshiba Strengthens Its Surveillance Hard Drive Series". Toshiba. 10 May 2021.
Notes
- ↑ This press release incorrectly claims that the S300 CMRs would be the one to split into the Pro subfamily.