Toshiba Enterprise SAS SSDs at 3.84TB

The Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announced its next generation of enterprise SSDs (eSSDs) for the PX Series.

The new PX04S line features four SCSI SAS eSSD models for enterprise applications including: mail servers; database servers; virtualized enterprise file servers; and primary storage in read, write or mixed workload environments.

The dual-ported 12Gb SAS PX04S Series offers random 4K performance with read IO/s up to 270,000 and write IO/s up to 125,000.

This is Toshiba’s first 12Gb SAS SSD to deliver 3.84TB of operating capacity.

The PX04S line features four eSSD models – PX04SHB, PX04SMB, PX04SVB and PX04SRB –
each offering a range of capacities for different applications and workloads:

• High-Endurance: Targeted at applications requiring the highest levels of eSSD performance, reliability and endurance, the PX04SHB supports 25 complete drive writes per day (DWPD) with 100% random workload and is available in a range of capacities from 200GB to 1.6TB. Write-intensive virtualized data centers, big data analytics and HPC workloads will benefit from the performance and data integrity afforded by the PX04SHB.
• Mid-Endurance: For mixed-use, mission-critical hyperscale and virtualized environments, PX04SMB provides high levels of predictable performance to optimize system and application performance. The PX04SMB offers 10 DWPD with capacities up to 3.2TB and is suitable for OLTP and e-commerce.
• Value-Endurance: The PX04SVB is optimized for read-intensive server and storage applications, requiring a balance of reliability, capacity and endurance. Capable of three DWPD with capacities up to 3.84TB, PX04SVB SSDs are suited for read-intensive applications such as media streaming, data warehousing and web servers.
• Read-Intensive: Targeted at read-intensive applications requiring one DWPD or less, the PX04SRB delivers features and performance for a range of enterprise and web-based workloads like VOD and data warehousing. The PX04SRB is available in capacities up to 3.84TB.

The PX04S Series is available in the 2.5-inch/15mm form factor for alignment with enterprise server and storage arrays. In addition to power-loss protection and data path protection, each model is available as a self-encrypting drive (SED TCG compliance) with instant secure erase and supports pin-3 power disable for improved enclosure services control over storage media.

The PX04S Series features customer-tunable power and performance allowing optimization for power efficiency or maximum performance.

The PX04S Series SAS SSDs are backed by Toshiba’s limited five-year warranty.

“This is our third generation of SAS SSDs and our second with 12Gbit/s. The new PX04S Series leverages years of Toshiba innovation and vertical integration. The result is an SSD architecture designed and optimized for the next-generation of virtualized enterprise and hyperscale data centers,” said Cameron Brett, director of SSD product marketing at Toshiba Storage Products business unit.

“Enterprise customers need storage solutions that are optimized for different applications and workloads,” said Jeff Janukowicz, research director for SSDs and enabling technologies, IDC. “SAS SSDs, such as Toshiba’s PX04S Series, that provide the ability to manage power and performance allow customers to better manage their storage environment and deliver the flexibility to meet ever changing service-level agreements.”

“Supermicro offers a broad range of SAS 12Gbit/s optimized server and storage platforms and combined with Toshiba’s new 2.5-inch PX04S Series eSSDs, our customers benefit from the latest innovations in high performance storage,” said Don Clegg, VP marketing and business development, Supermicro. “Our latest 4U 90x top-load, hot-swap JBOD solution (SC946ED-R2KJBOD), when fully populated with Toshiba PX04S Series eSSDs, provides customers with high-performance, HA storage available for the most data-intensive, mission critical applications and workloads.”

Samples of the PX04S Series are available and will be on display at Flash Memory Summit in San Jose, CA.