Hard drives with a high spindle speed at a certain stage of the drive evolution were registered even in the consumer market segment , although their main audience was always concentrated in the server segment. Colleagues from the site Golem.de at CeBIT 2017 were at the stand of Toshiba, which nominally is the third player in the hard drive segment, although its share now does not exceed 10%. However, modest production volumes do not prevent Toshiba from making forecasts for the development of the entire industry.
According to the manufacturer representatives , to produce hard drives with a spindle rotation speed of 15,000 rpm there is no more sense - they are not so fast, as expensive. In addition, the limit on the volume around 600 GB does not allow to compete with other types of drives. If we talk about hard drives with a spindle speed of 10,000 rpm, then Toshiba intends to release another generation of related products. Their volume will be limited to 1.8 TB. However, even the demand for such drives is steadily declining, and Toshiba believes that in the foreseeable future, more capacious hard drives with a spindle speed of not more than 7,200 rpm, and solid-state drives that will be used in cases where it is important Speed.
To increase the amount of data stored on hard disks with a spindle speed of 7200 rpm, Toshiba is assembled by using helium and increasing the number of magnetic plates in one enclosure. At the same time, Toshiba believes that for a more efficient use of SSD in the server segment, new interfaces are needed that take into account the specifics of this market.
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