Toshiba

As my last post was on a rather rare vintage Toshiba MK-1034FC from 1992, I decided it would be fitting to look at a more modern Toshiba in comparison. In this case, it’s from 2018! The hard drive aficionados among you already know the deep history this drive design shares with Hitachi. Toshiba have kept ... Read More

The Toshiba MK-1034FC was released in mid-1991, but formally announced in late-1990. In fact, its initial conception was to compete with Conner Peripherals. Back at this time, Toshiba was a huge customer of Conner’s, so this wasn’t particularly great news for them. Particularly, this was an issue with portable computers, which has always been Toshiba’s ... Read More

These aren’t drives you see everyday. The Toshiba MK-232FC & MK-234FC models (alongside their alternative interface counterparts) are some of Toshiba’s earliest voice-coil driven hard drives from the very late 80’s, being released in December of 1989. I purchased these in a lot from Yahoo Auctions out of Japan, alongside another 6 early Toshiba drives. ... Read More

The HDWG440 is built on Toshiba’s MG08-D drive architecture, a descendant born out of Toshiba’s acquisition of Fujitsu’s disk drive division in 2009. Of course, many points of innovation & iterative change have been made by Toshiba since, resulting in the types of drives we see from the company today (ignoring Hitachi-based HDA’s with the ... Read More