里程碑
东芝电子元件及存储装置株式会社及其关联公司（东芝）是存储供应商，拥有设计、开发、制造、销售和其他基础架构功能，涵盖企业、移动和零售环境中的硬盘驱动器（HDD）存储产品。作为集成存储解决方案的优秀提供商，东芝为存储技术设定了当今许多行业标准。
在过去的半个世纪中，它一直处于存储行业的最前沿，并已帮助产品设计人员实现了新的令人兴奋的应用程序，这些应用程序以前只是人们想象力的象征，东芝作出了以下几个新的突破。
东芝将通过大量的专门研究和开发来激发存储技术的未来。
| 年份 |
里程碑 | 注 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Released the 3.5-inch neaerling HDD of CMR 20TB recording capacity with 10 disks. | *2 |
| 2021 | Developed the 3.5-inch nearline HDD of the industry’s largest capacity CMR 18TB and SMR 20TB with Flux Control–Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology. | *2 |
| 2019 | Released 3.5 inch nearline HDD with the industry’s largest capacity 16TB with CMR(Conventional Magnetic Recording). | *2 |
| 2017 |
Released the 3.5-inch nearline HDD with the industry's largest storage capacity of 14 TB, which is using company's first helium-sealed design and the world's first 9 disks. | *2 |
| 2015 | Achieved the industry's largest areal density of 1 Tbpsi (Tera bit per square inch, Tera: 1012) with 2.5-inch HDD. | *2 |
| 2014 | Launched Toshiba's first enterprise capacity HDD optimized for servers supporting cloud-based applications and analytic workloads. | |
| Released Toshiba's first high capacity HDD for surveillance applications. | ||
| Toshiba's self-encrypting HDD was validated to government-class security requirements. | ||
| Released the industry's largest-class storage capacity up to 600GB in a 15,000rpm 2.5-inch HDD design. | *2 | |
| Released 3.5-inch nearline enterprise HDD with the industry's largest 5TB recording capacity. | *2 | |
| 2013 | Released Toshiba's first two-platter 7mm-height HDD delivering up to industry's largest-class 1TB of storage capacity. | *2 |
| Launched Toshiba's first 7,278rpm 2.5-inch HDD series with 7mm-height. | ||
| Launched industry's largest capacity of 320GB automotive-grade HDD. | *2 | |
| Expanded SSHD lineup with Toshiba's first 7mm-height models. | ||
| Announced the new security features of self-encrypting drive (SED) and supporting cryptographic-erase. | ||
| Shipped 26 million Automotive-Grade HDDs. | ||
| 2012 | Start shipment of the industry largest class 4TB storage capacity nearline HDD. | *2 |
| Completed acquisition of HDD manufacturing equipment and transfer of HDD manufacturing facility from Western Digital. Started shipment of 3.5-inch HDD for consumer products. | *1 | |
| Launched enterprise 2.5-inch HDD in industry's highest capacity class up to 900GB for drives with 10,500rpm rotation speed. | *2 | |
| Began volume production of SSHD, combining the performance of NAND with the capacity of HDD. | ||
| 2011 | Launched 2.5-inch HDD with industry's first series of self-encrypting drives (SED) equipped with wipe technology. | *2 |
| 2010 | Announced wipe technology for Self-Encrypting HDD. | |
| Introduced industry's highest areal density 2.5-inch 750GB HDD. | *2 | |
| 2009 | Toshiba acquired Fujitsu built-in HDD business, creating the broadest portfolio of products in the storage industry. | *1 *2 |
| Industry's first HDD manufacturer to meet the OPAL encryption specification. | *2 *3 | |
| 2008 | Brought SATA technology to automotive HDDs. | |
| 2007 | Entered personal storage market with a line of portable USB 2.0 external hard drives. | |
| Achieved Toshiba's 5,000,000 units' shipment of automotive HDD. | ||
| 2005 | Achieved Toshiba's 100,000,000 units' shipment of whole Toshiba HDD. | |
| Commercialized the industry's first PMR (Perpendicular magnetic recording) HDD. | *2 | |
| 2004 | AAnnounced the industry's first 2.5-inch SAS Enterprise HDD. | *2 *3 |
| Released 0.85-inch HDD and recognized in the Guinness World Records for world's smallest HDD. | *1 | |
| Released the industry's first 2.5-inch SATA HDD. | *2 *3 | |
| 2001 | Released the industry's first automotive HDD. | *2 |
| 2000 | Debuted the first high-volume 1.8-inch HDD with the storage capacity of 5GB in 5mm height. | *2 |
| 1998 | Achieved Toshiba's 20,000,000 units' shipment of HDD in total. | |
| Released the industry's first 2.5-inch HDD that utilized GMR (Giant magnetoresistive) head. | *2 | |
| 1996 | Achieved Toshiba's 10,000,000 units' shipment of HDD in total. | |
| 1995 | Started TIP (Toshiba Information Equipment (Philippines), Inc.) manufacturing operation. | |
| 1994 | Achieved Toshiba's 5,000,000 units' shipment of HDD in total. | |
| 1991 | Started volume production of the industry's first HDD with Glass Platters. | *2 |
| 1990 | Started shipment of 2.5-inch HDD. | |
| 1987 | Started volume production of Toshiba's first 3.5-inch HDD. | |
| 1984 | Started volume production of Toshiba's first 5.25-inch HDD. | |
| 1983 | Started volume production of Toshiba's first 8-inch HDD. | |
| 1980 | Released the industry's first 10.5-inch HDD. | *2 *3 |
| 1969 | Started shipment of Toshiba's first HDD with 14-inch. | |
| 1967 | Entered HDD industry. |
- Western Digital是Western Digital Technologies, Inc.在美国和／或其他国家的注册商标或商标；Fujitsu是Fujitsu Limited的注册商标或商标；Guinness World Records是Guinness World Records Limited的商标。
- 截至公告之时。
- 在收购富士通内置硬盘业务之前取得的里程碑。
- 容量定义：1TB＝1万亿字节。但实际可用的存储容量可能会因操作环境和格式而异。根据不同的文件大小、格式、设置、软件和操作系统，可用存储容量（包括各种媒体文件示例）将存在差异。实际的格式化容量可能存在差异。
- "英寸”是指硬盘的外形尺寸。它们并不表示硬盘的实际大小。
- CMR：传统磁记录
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