Hallelujah..
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2012_08/pr0801.htm
These drives are essentially Hitachi's restickered as Toshiba. For those that have been living under a rock, WDC had to forfeit a Hitachi plant in China to Toshiba to gain FTC approval for its HGST acquisition. Thank god for the FTC or home & SOHO storage really would be in a state of Seagate/WDC duopoly suck.
This is good news for anyone in the market for a NAS drive, since WD Red pricing has become somewhat obnoxious since release - first $179, now $199 and still sold out so the market is clearly hurting for another option. Its also good news for existing Hitachi owners wondering how they were going to expand their drive pool -- by all indications these should be able to mix in perfectly well with an existing set of Hitachi's in a RAID, etc.
Note: What the press release doesn't mention but what I have on good authority is a 4TB offering is in the works and should be released some time before end of year. Reason its not immediately available is because WDC held back the Hitachi 4TB property in the transition and Toshiba ended up with the immediate ability to continue "printing" everything else up to 3TB.
Pictured: Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB has quietly been available since early July from online retailers. Despite the Toshiba sticker the ATA identify string actually still reports as Hitachi HDS721010DLE630 (Hitachi 7K1000.D).
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2012_08/pr0801.htm
These drives are essentially Hitachi's restickered as Toshiba. For those that have been living under a rock, WDC had to forfeit a Hitachi plant in China to Toshiba to gain FTC approval for its HGST acquisition. Thank god for the FTC or home & SOHO storage really would be in a state of Seagate/WDC duopoly suck.
This is good news for anyone in the market for a NAS drive, since WD Red pricing has become somewhat obnoxious since release - first $179, now $199 and still sold out so the market is clearly hurting for another option. Its also good news for existing Hitachi owners wondering how they were going to expand their drive pool -- by all indications these should be able to mix in perfectly well with an existing set of Hitachi's in a RAID, etc.
Note: What the press release doesn't mention but what I have on good authority is a 4TB offering is in the works and should be released some time before end of year. Reason its not immediately available is because WDC held back the Hitachi 4TB property in the transition and Toshiba ended up with the immediate ability to continue "printing" everything else up to 3TB.
Pictured: Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB has quietly been available since early July from online retailers. Despite the Toshiba sticker the ATA identify string actually still reports as Hitachi HDS721010DLE630 (Hitachi 7K1000.D).
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