Toshiba Information Equipment (Philippines) Inc. (TIP) said on October 2, 2026, that added production lines at Laguna Technopark had begun making nearline hard disk drives (HDDs) and shipped their first drives. TIP targets about twice its fiscal 2025 annual production capacity, measured by storage capacity, in fiscal 2027.
Toshiba starts production on added Philippine lines
Nearline HDDs are hard drives designed for data centers and other high-capacity storage. The Laguna Technopark lines add nearline production to output previously made at Toshiba’s Carmelray Industrial Park facility.
What Toshiba’s fiscal 2027 capacity target means
TIP’s target compares its annual production capacity in fiscal 2027 with its fiscal 2025 level. The measure is storage capacity, so the target describes the total capacity of drives produced over a year.
Reported plans for higher-capacity HDDs
Reported future plans outline several capacity milestones, each with its own timing:
| HDD capacity class | Reported timing |
| 40TB-class, up to 12 disks | 2027 plan |
| 65TB-class | Volume production targeted around 2030 |
| 100TB-class | Planned for a later stage |
