Toshiba S300

Toshiba S300/Toshiba S300 Pro

Manufacturer

Toshiba

Intended purpose

Currently under investigation

Common specifications

Form factor

3.5"

z-height (mm)

26.1 mm

Spindle speed (RPM)

5,400 (non-Pro, excluding HDWV110), 5,700 (HDWV110 only)
7,200 (Pro)

Advanced Format?

512e

Unrecoverable error rate

1

in

1 0^{14}

Production

Released

2018 (HDWT1xx, HDWT3xx)
2020 (HDWT7xx, HDWV1xx)

Discontinued

In production

Predecessor	Successor
None	None

Toshiba S300 is a hard drive family created by Toshiba. This family consists of a mixture of rebranded Toshiba MD04ABAxxxV, Toshiba DT02ABAxxxV, Toshiba DT01ABAxxxV and Toshiba MD06ACAxxxV (for the Pro versions) families.^[1] Regular S300s are 5,400 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.

In 2020, along with the announcement of the SMR models, the S300 7,200 drives were split into their own subfamily, the S300 Pro.^[2]^{[lower-alpha 1]}

Products

S300 (regular)

CMR 5,400 RPM

SMR 5,400 RPM

CMR 5,700 RPM

TOSHIBA HDWV110

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.
↑ "Toshiba expands its Surveillance Hard Disk Drive series". Toshiba.

Notes

↑ This press release incorrectly claims that the S300 CMRs would be the one to split into the Pro subfamily.

[1] "Toshiba - Internal Hard Drives - S300". Toshiba.

[2] "Toshiba expands its Surveillance Hard Disk Drive series". Toshiba.

[3] This press release incorrectly claims that the S300 CMRs would be the one to split into the Pro subfamily.

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