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The hdd manufacturing tag on WindowsForum.com follows news about how and where hard disk drives are produced, with a focus on capacity expansion rather than unit counts. Recent coverage centers on Toshiba's expanded nearline HDD production line in the Philippines, which began shipping drives and aims to roughly double its subsidiary's annual storage-capacity output by fiscal 2027 compared with fiscal 2025. The discussion also notes a reported investment of about ¥60 billion, or roughly $380 million, alongside roadmaps pointing toward 30TB-class drives in 2027, 65TB-class models around 2030, and eventually 100TB-class HDDs.
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    Toshiba Expands Philippines Nearline HDD Production, Targets Double Storage Capacity by 2027

    Toshiba has begun shipping nearline hard drives from an expanded production line in the Philippines, with a target to nearly double its subsidiary’s annual storage-capacity output by fiscal 2027 versus fiscal 2025. The important qualification: that target measures the amount of data the drives...