Dell Delivers Servers With Toshiba’s PX04S Series 12Gb SAS SSD

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announces its collaboration with Dell, Inc., the first server OEM to use its PX04S SSDs.

With this family of drives, Dell offers SAS-based servers with the fastest random read enterprise SSDs⁽¹⁾. Dell PowerEdge R730 servers using a single PX04S drive demonstrate 340,000 random read IO/s⁽²⁾, making them Dell’s fastest SAS-based servers available.

The 12Gb⁽³⁾ SAS PX04S Series is available in a lineup of models to meet every endurance and application workload requirement – including high endurance, mainstream and read-intensive options – and capacities up to 4TB with excellent all-around performance and encryption options. The PX04S Series features a Toshiba-developed controller and Toshiba-developed NAND to provide a vertically integrated SSD, providing system and application performance in servers and storage.

“With the fastest random read SAS SSDs available, Toshiba’s PX04S SSDs offer excellent performance and value for Dell PowerEdge server customers. Toshiba has been a long-time and trusted supplier to Dell for SAS SSDs,” said Brian Payne, executive director, Dell PowerEdge product management.

“With a long-time supplier relationship, we understand Dell’s commitment to high performance for their customers,” said Steve Fingerhut, SVP and GM, TAEC, Storage Products. “We’re proud to provide this storage option for Dell’s PowerEdge servers, and the PX04S Series was a natural fit for Dell’s emphasis on quality and reliability.”

The PX04S Series is available.

⁽¹⁾ Random Read 4KB (IO/s) speed based on published web specs as of January 29, 2016.
⁽²⁾ IOMeter demo was shown at Dell World 2015 using the PX04S SSD with firmware for Dell.
⁽³⁾ Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions, and file size.