Toshiba S300
Toshiba S300 is a hard drive family created by Toshiba, designed for small or medium business (SMB) surveillance use. This family consists of a mixture of rebranded Toshiba MD04-V, Toshiba DT02-V, Toshiba DT02-VH as well as Toshiba DT01-V families, whcih are all purpose binned for surveillance use as with the S300.[1] Regular S300s are 5,400 RPM (for most models) or 5,700 RPM (for the HDWV110) and contain SMR models (along with the usual CMR), whereas the related Toshiba S300 Pro split off from the S300 in 2020 exclusively contains 7,200 CMR drives.
History[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Current models[edit | edit source]
| Model | Capacity (TB) | Based on | Density (TB/platter) | Cache (MiB) | Recording technology | Year released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOSHIBA HDWV110 | 1 | DT01-V | 1.0 | 64 | CMR | 2020 |
| TOSHIBA HDWT720 | 2 | DT02-V | 2.0 | 128 | SMR | 2020 |
| TOSHIBA HDWT140 | 4 | MD04-V | 1.0 | 128 | CMR | 2018 |
| TOSHIBA HDWT740 | 4 | DT02-V | 2.0 | 128 | SMR | 2020 |
| TOSHIBA HDWT840 | 4 | DT02-VH | 2.0 | 256 | SMR | 2021 |
| TOSHIBA HDWT860 | 6 | DT02-VH | 2.0 | 256 | SMR | 2021 |
Discontinued models[edit | edit source]
| Model | Capacity (TB) | Based on | Spindle speed (RPM) | Density (TB/platter) | Cache (MiB) | Recording technology | Year released | Year discontinued | Replaced with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOSHIBA HDWT150 | 5 | MD04-V | 5,400 | 1.0 | 128 | CMR | 2018 | 2020 | None |
| TOSHIBA HDWT360 | 6 | MD06-V | 7,200 | 1.33 | 256 | CMR | 2018 | 2020 | Equivalent badged model in the S300 Pro family |
| TOSHIBA HDWT380 | 8 | MD06-V | 7,200 | 1.33 | 256 | CMR | 2018 | 2020 | Equivalent badged model in the S300 Pro family |
| TOSHIBA HDWT31A | 10 | MD06-V | 7,200 | 1.43 | 256 | CMR | 2018 | 2020 | Equivalent badged model in the S300 Pro family |
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- The S300 is the only families 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 the HDWT7xx and HDWT8xx namespaces and the HDWV110). Additionally, including the S300 Pro within, the HDWT namespace is the only Toshiba retail namespace to contain both Hitachi and native Toshiba HDAs. Most namespaces only contain one or the other.
- No CMR model is sold in Asian or American markets.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "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 2020.
- ↑ "Toshiba Strengthens Its Surveillance Hard Drive Series". Toshiba. 10 May 2021.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ This press release incorrectly claims that the S300 CMRs would be the one to split into the Pro subfamily.