Toshiba’s new drives are perfect for NAS and PC
Toshiba unveiled 18TB hard drives in the N300 NAS hard drive and X300 performance drive series. The drives are 9-disk helium-sealed units fitted with Toshiba's Flux Control – Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology.
By using FC-MAMR, Toshiba managed to boost drive density by...
Seagate is still the king of HDDs, Western Digital is closing gap
In Q2 2021, HDDs have shown a positive dynamic after underperforming in recent years. The big three HDD suppliers (Western Digital, Toshiba, Seagate) shipped a record 350.7 exabytes. The demand mainly came from exascale data centers, operators, and Chia miners.
Seagate is still at the top of the...
Toshiba regrets colluding with government to strong-arm its shareholders
Toshiba has released an open letter regarding recently publicized information from an independent investigation, which found that the company pressured shareholders into voting a certain way. The company says in the letter that it acknowledges the actions and that they have impacted trust.
The l...
Toshiba caves to investors and drops two board members
Investors are demanding the move, but the Chairman is refusing to go quietly.
Toshiba this week said it will drop two existing directors from its board as major shareholders, according to a report in Bloomberg News. The move is in response to an investor revolt, which demanded accountability aft...
Researchers create an ‘un-hackable’ quantum optical fiber network
Toshiba researchers demonstrated quantum key distribution on fibers of record 600km in length
Japanese tech giant Toshiba announced this week that they have successfully sent quantum information over 600-kilometer-long optical fibers. With that, they set a a new distance record and have heralde...
European subsidiary of Toshiba hit by ransomware attack
Toshiba Tec France Imaging Systems has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The company is a subsidiary of Toshiba that focuses on point-of-sale equipment and multifunction printers.
Reuters reports that the attack was carried out by DarkSide, the same group of hackers who were behind the recen...
Toshiba introduces new SMR drives for video surveillance
Toshiba has announced two new hard disk drives in its S300 range. These are 4 and 6 terabyte drives that use shingled magnetic recording, a technique that reduces the price at the expense of writing speeds.
In the technique used, the magnetic fields on a hard disk have some overlap. This makes i...
Toshiba’s ‘quantum-inspired computer’ is out of the cloud, on desktops
Toshiba has a certain type of ‘quantum computers’ in the clouds and they decided to bring them out and put them in Japanese desktops. They are going by the fancy name “simulated bifurcation machines” and use “quantum-inspired algorithms”. They run on a field-programmable gate array (FPG...
Dynabook introduces affordable Satellite Pro C50-G laptops
Laptop manufacturer Dynabook has added a new series of laptops to its Satellite Pro C50 line. The C50-G line is aimed at price-conscious customers, including options for cheaper Celeron processors.
The C50-G is a laptop with a matte 15.6″ screen with a choice of HD or FHD panel. Presumably, Dy...
Dynabook Rolls Out New Satellite Pro Laptop Series
Dynabook has introduced the new Satellite Pro Laptop Series.
This week Dynabook introduced the Satellite Pro laptop series. The company also announced a strategic relationship with SYNNEX to manage the distribution of the new laptops.
SYNNEX is a leading provider of distribution, systems de...
Dynabook unveils new series of Windows 10 Portégé laptops
Dynabook (formerly Toshiba) has announced new premium thin & light Portégé X-series laptops. The laptops will be powered by Intel's latest tenth generation Core processors.
The laptops are the 13.3-inch Portégé X30-G, the 14-inch Portégé X40-G and the 15.6-inch Portégé X50-G. The com...
With Dynabook, Toshiba wants to retake its position
In April, it became clear that the PC division of Toshiba (Toshiba Client Solutions) will change its name to Dynabook. The name change follows a turbulent period at Toshiba; all the more reason to take a look at the Dynabook Difference event. This is where the division first presented its new name....