Toshiba Sampling 2.5-Inch Enterprise 12Gb SAS HDD Up to 2.4TB

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announces the AL15SE Series HDD, its next generation of 10,500rpm enterprise performance HDDs for mission critical servers and storage.

The new drive series boasts a 2,400GB (1) capacity model – a 33% capacity increase over Toshiba’s AL14SE generation and company’s largest capacity for a 10,500rpm HDD.

Built to deliver low-latency performance, the AL15SE Series supports 12Gb (2) SAS dual-port interface to optimize the host transfer rate.

All models utilize a space-efficient, power-saving 2.5 inch (3) , 15mm form-factor.

Advanced Format models support 4K native and 512e emulated sector technologies and increase areal density in capacities ranging from 600GB to 2,400GB and feature a 15% increase in sustained transfer rate over the prior AL14SE generation. New 512n sector technology models increase areal density in capacities ranging from 300GB to 1,200GB.

“The 10,500rpm disk continues to be the workhorse of mission critical IT operations,” said Scott Wright, director disk drive product marketing, TAEC “With Advanced Format models now supporting up to 2,400GB, the AL15SE Series provides a clear path forward for customers who may benefit from higher capacity per spindle for performance-oriented traditional IT, in mission-critical hybrid storage platforms, and in read-intensive applications that may benefit from lower-latency.”

The AL15SE Series features optional Sanitize Instant Erase (SIE) (4) models and leverages company’s persistent write cache technology for data integrity in sudden power-loss scenarios.

The models are designed for tier one mission-critical servers and storage systems, including hybrid storage platforms which may benefit from both low-latency and storage capacity up to 2,400GB.

Sample shipments of the AL15SE are available.

(1) Definition of capacity: 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes. A computer OS, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1TB = 240 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and OS and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
(2) Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions, and file size.
(3) Form Factor: 2.5-inch means the form factor of HDDs. They do not indicate drive’s physical size
(4) Sanitize Instant erase (SIE) is a function to invalidate the data recorded on the magnetic disks at a blink.