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Toshiba Announces Third Generation of Enterprise SAS SSDs
The Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic
Components, Inc., a committed technology leader, today announced its
next generation of enterprise solid state drives (eSSDs) for the PX
Series. The new PX04S line features four serial-attached small computer
system interface (SCSI) SAS (News - Alert) eSSD models well-suited for enterprise
applications including: mail servers; database servers; virtualized
enterprise file servers; and primary storage in read, write or mixed
workload environments. Continuing Toshiba's legacy of quality and
reliability, the dual-ported 12Gbit/s1 SAS PX04S Series
offers impressive random 4K performance with read IOPS up to 270K and
write IOPS up to 125K. This is Toshiba's first 12Gbit/s SAS SSD to
deliver 3.84TB2 of operating capacity.
The PX04S line features four eSSD models - PX04SHB, PX04SMB, PX04SVB and
PX04SRB - each offering a range of capacities and optimized 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 (DWPD3) with a one
hundred percent random workload and is available in a range of
capacities from 200GB to 1.6TB. Write-intensive virtualized data
centers, big data analytics and high performance computing (HPC)
workloads will benefit from the impressive performance and data
integrity afforded by the PX04SHB.
Mid-Endurance: For mixed-use, mission-critical hyperscale and
virtualized environments, Toshiba's PX04SMB provides very 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 online transaction processing (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 suited
for a range of enterprise and web-based workloads like video on demand
(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 full 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 warranty4.
Toshiba's integrated SSD design and manufacturing capability ensure that
key components of the SSD, including NAND flash, are designed by
Toshiba, leveraging Toshiba's vertical integration and leadership
strengths in the growing SSD market. Component and design commonality
also potentially reduces qualification time for Toshiba customers and
reflects Toshiba's collaborative approach to SSD design and
manufacturing.
"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 Solid State Drives and Enabling Technologies at IDC (News - Alert). "SAS
SSDs, such as Toshiba's PX04SSeries, 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 SAS3 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, Vice President of 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, high-availability storage available for the most
data-intensive, mission critical applications and workloads."
Samples of the PX04S Series are available now and will be on display
next week at Flash Memory Summit in San Jose, Calif. in Toshiba's booth
#407. For more information on Toshiba's line of industry-leading SSDs,
HDDs and SSHDs, visit www.toshibastorage.com.
To connect with Toshiba Storage, visit the corporate blog at http://storage.toshiba.com/corporateblog/
and follow @ToshibaStorage
on Twitter (News - Alert).
About Toshiba Storage Products
Toshiba Corporation and its affiliates offer one-of-a-kind global
storage solutions, offering hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state drives
(SSDs) and NAND flash memories - technologies that drive a wide range of
consumer electronics, computer and automotive applications, as well as
enterprise solutions for the global marketplace. Toshiba is a leader in
the development, design and manufacture of mobile, consumer and
enterprise hard disk drives and solid state drives. In North America,
the Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic
Components, Inc., markets high-quality storage peripherals to original
equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, value-added
resellers, value-added dealers, systems integrators and distributors
worldwide. Inherent in the Toshiba storage family are the high-quality
engineering and manufacturing capabilities that have established Toshiba
products as innovation leaders worldwide. For more information, visit www.toshibastorage.com.
About Toshiba Corp. and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
(TAEC)
Through proven commitment, lasting relationships and advanced, reliable
electronic components, Toshiba enables its customers to create
market-leading designs. Toshiba is the heartbeat within product
breakthroughs from OEMs, ODMs, CMs, VARs, distributors and fabless chip
companies worldwide. A committed electronic components leader, Toshiba
designs and manufactures high-quality flash memory-based storage
solutions, solid state drives (SSDs), hard disk drives (HDDs), solid
state hybrid drives (SSHDs), discrete devices, custom SoCs/ASICs,
imaging products, microcontrollers, wireless components, mobile
peripheral devices, advanced materials and medical tubes that make
possible today's leading smartphones, tablets, cameras, medical devices,
automotive electronics, industrial applications, enterprise solutions
and more.
Toshiba
America Electronic Components, Inc. is an independent operating
company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba
Corporation, Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world's
sixth largest semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner (News - Alert), 2014 Worldwide
Semiconductor Revenue Estimates, December 2014). Founded in Tokyo in
1875, Toshiba is at the heart of a global network of over 590
consolidated companies employing over 200,000 people worldwide. Visit
Toshiba's web site at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm.
© 2015 Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. All rights reserved.
Information in this press release, including product pricing and
specifications, content of services and contact information, is current
and believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is
subject to change without prior notice. Technical and application
information contained here is subject to the most recent applicable
Toshiba product specifications.
1 Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device,
read and write conditions, and file size.
2 Definition of capacity: Toshiba defines a megabyte (MB) as
1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte
(TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however,
reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB =
2³°= 1,073,741,824 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
operating system, such as Microsoft (News - Alert) Operating System and/or
pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted
capacity may vary.
3 DWPD: Drive Write Per Day. One full drive write per day
means the drive can be written and re-written to full capacity once a
day every day for five years, the stated product warranty period. Actual
results may vary due to system configuration, usage and other factors
4 For more information on Toshiba's limited five-year
warranty. http://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/us/product/storage-products/warranty_support/warranty-support.html
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