New Toshiba SAS SLC SSDs Up to 400GB and 2TB 3.5-Inch SAS and SATA HDDs

Toshiba Storage Device Division
announced its family of enterprise-class solid state drives (SSDs).
Developed to meet the market’s demand for performance and lower power
consumption, the MK x001GRZB series combines Toshiba’s hard disk drive
(HDD) expertise and as the inventor of NAND flash technology.  

              The new SSDs and HDDs

The 2.5-type small form factor drives use the latest 32 nanometer
(nm) enterprise grade single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory from
Toshiba and a 6Gb/sec Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. Samples will be available for customer qualification in the first quarter of 2011.

Toshiba also announced a new line up of high capacity near line HDD with a 3.5-type form factor.

The new SSD integrates Toshiba’s advanced capabilities in NAND flash and
solid state storage solutions with know-how in controller and firmware
design for enterprise HDDs. As a result, Toshiba is positioned to
engineer solid state drives that deliver the performance, endurance and
reliability required for business critical applications.

Available in capacities of 100GB, 200GB, and 400GB, the MKx001GRZB
family of SSD drives are designed for ease of integration into new or
existing tier-0 enterprise storage systems and designs, including
servers, direct-attached storage and network-attached storage. The
drives deliver performance with random sustained 90,000 read and 17,000
write IOPS (4K random read/write I/O performance) and sequential
sustained 510MB/sec read and 230MB/sec write throughput. This realizes read speeds more than 3 times faster than for Toshiba’s current enterprise HDD
(Comparison between MK4001GRZB and MBE2147RC. The read speed of
MK4001GRZB is 510MB/s., and the sustainable read speed of Toshiba’s
conventional high speed HDD, MBE2147RC – 2.5-type HDD, 15,000rpm, 147GB –
is approx. 140MB/s). Combined with a power requirement of only 6.5
watts in operation, Toshiba’s SSD family also delivers a power
efficiency rating of 13,800 IOPS/Watt.

As the IT world makes the transition to cloud solutions, data that are
now stored in individual users devices – desktop and portable PCs and
tablet PCs – will increasingly be stored in server farms. The enterprise
storage systems required for this are optimized in terms of overall
performance, power and cost by structuring high performance devices with
different capacities in layers.

The new enterprise SSD line-up and the high capacity 3.5-type near line
HDD complement Toshiba’s current range of enterprise 2.5-type HDD, and
with their addition to its storage solutions portfolio the company has
further enhanced its ability to deliver layered architecture solutions
for data centers and enterprise servers.

The Toshiba enterprise SSD lineup forms the pinnacle of a tiered storage
architecture that enables organizations to effectively tune the
performance, capacity, endurance, and reliability of their storage
environments. For data storage that requires high reliability and high
capacity – but not the very rapid access to data provided by SSDs -.

Toshiba has also released the new MKx001TRKB and MKx002TSKB series
HDDs, the former with an SAS interface, the later a SATA interface.
These cost-effective near line HDD models feature a maximum storage
capacity of 2TB in a traditional 3.5-type form factor and 6Gb/sec SAS
and 3Gb/sec Serial ATA (SATA) interfaces. Intended for 24 x 7 operation,
the drives also include features that are critical to business
operations such as Error Correction (ECC), Rotational Vibration (RV)
compensation technology for multi-drive systems, and enhanced power
condition state technology. Mass production of MK2001 TRKB and MK1001 TRKB starts from the first quarter, 2011, with samples shipments of MK 2002TSKB and MK1002TSKB following in the first quarter of 2011.

                                    
Product specifications:

                               2.5 type Enterprise SSD Line-up

                                   
3.5 type Enterprise SSD Line-up