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Toshiba Unveils Canvio Gaming Portable Hard Drives, Canvio Advance, and N300 Pro NAS HDDs

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Toshiba may have spun off its flash memory business into Kioxia, but the company still makes mechanical hard-drives and derivative products such as portable HDDs. At the 2023 International CES, the company showed off its Canvio Gaming line of portable HDDs. These USB 3.1 portable hard drives come in capacities of up to 4 TB, and support both Xbox and PlayStation consoles, where they can be used to store entire libraries of games that can be made ready to play faster than fetching the game from the Internet.

The Canvio Advance series targets professionals on the move providing storage of up to 4 TB, with auto-backup both to itself and the cloud (though your PC), and data-encryption. The Canvio Ready and Canvio Flex target consumer use-cases. The latter in particular has a broad device compatibility spanning PCs, Macs, tablets, and handhelds, with USB-C and type-A interfaces. Lastly there's the N300 line of enterprise hard drives targeting NAS applications, which come in capacities of up to 18 TB, with up to 7,200 RPM spindle speed, and CMR recording (no SMR). These drives are designed for 24x7 operation, come with up to 1.2 million hours MTTF at 300 TB/year workload, and are backed by 5-year warranties.



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Gaming... Hard drives? Why the hell would I go back to metal for my games?
 
Gaming... Hard drives? Why the hell would I go back to metal for my games?
because ssds, especially external ones, be it ready made external ssds or your own ssd + case, is way more expensive than any hdd at 1tb and above. And don't start giving me random amazon links, remember the world is bigger than USA and Europe.

they did add one feature for their "gaming" external hdds, an always on mode in the firmware. at least i dont need to wait for it to spin up and down compared to regular external hdd that are usually optimized for power usage since nearly all of them are repurposed laptop hdds.
 
Loks good for back up smaler hard drives.
 
because ssds, especially external ones, be it ready made external ssds or your own ssd + case, is way more expensive than any hdd at 1tb and above. And don't start giving me random amazon links, remember the world is bigger than USA and Europe.

they did add one feature for their "gaming" external hdds, an always on mode in the firmware. at least i dont need to wait for it to spin up and down compared to regular external hdd that are usually optimized for power usage since nearly all of them are repurposed laptop hdds.
So, poor people in poor countries then? I'm sure their priority is a gaming branded external drive over just what ever cheapest drive they can find is.

Nah, son. This is at the 2023 International CES. It's obvious who they're aiming these products at.
 
"Lastly there's the N300 line of enterprise hard drives targeting NAS applications, which come in capacities of up to 18 TB, with up to 7,200 RPM spindle speed, and CMR recording (no SMR). These drives are designed for 24x7 operation, come with up to 1.2 million hours MTTF at 300 TB/year workload, and are backed by 5-year warranties."

-no SMR
-5 year warranty

nice and nice
 
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