You’re probably laughing to yourself without delay saying, “300GB? That isn’t big storage.” But, hear us out. The oh-so memorably titled MK01GRRB and MK01GRRR don’t seem to be your standard hard drives — these are enterprise-grade disks that spin at 15k RPM and slot in a 2.5-inch bay. Toshiba claims they’re the very best capacity 2.5-inch, 15k drives for sale, and we couldn’t dig up any evidence on the contrary. The 6Gb/s SAS connection makes sure businesses get the main they could out of these platters spinning at break neck speeds and the GRRR models include a self-encrypting feature.Both drives will start shipping in both 147 and 300GB sizes in Q1 of 2012, but pricing has yet to be announced. Inspect the PR after the break for a number of more details.
Toshiba Doubles Capacity of High Performance Enterprise Drives and Adds Self Encrypting Model to fulfill quite a lot of Enterprise Application Requirements
IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Continuing its leadership of innovation in small form factor hard disk drive drives (HDD), Toshiba’s Storage Products Business Unit, a division of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc, announced the industry’s highest-capacity 2.5-inch high performance enterprise-class drive. The Toshiba MK01GRRB/R series supports the exacting requirements of compute-intensive environments with a fifteen,000 RPM spin speed, 6Gb/s SAS interface, and top capacity of 300GB1. As well, the Toshiba MK01GRRR models offer drive-based encryption to assist companies manage data security.
“Enterprise customers are increasingly satisfying their performance and capacity needs with power efficient small form factor drives. Enterprise drives with the newest self-encryption features are helping data centers to more cost-effectively achieve compliance with information security mandates,” said Joel Hagberg, vp of selling at Toshiba’s Storage Products Business Unit. “Toshiba small form factor enterprise drives deliver the performance, capacity and security measures IT administrators require for today’s mission critical server, storage and cloud appliance markets.”
Toshiba’s third generation 2.5-inch 15,000 RPM enterprise drives leverage an enhanced power condition state that reduces drive spin in idle states, significantly lowering power consumption. Lower power consumption also means lower heat dissipation, which increases system stability, and no more energy use. This protects enterprises money and decreases the impact at the environment.
As a part of its commitment to improved security, the Toshiba MK01GRRR drive features self-encryption technology designed to the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) “Enterprise SSC” specification. SED technology provides simple and complete data security in the course of the drive’s usable life cycle – and not using a performance impact – and enables organizations to crypto-graphically erase protected data securely, enabling the power to come, service, repurpose, or retire drives without lengthy data overwrite operations or physical destruction of the drive.
“Increasing the capacity of two.5-inch enterprise class HDDs is expanding the market opportunity for this type factor given its inherent power and information density advantages in comparison to three.5-inch models,” said John Rydning, IDC’s research vice chairman for hard drive drives. “Toshiba’s new MK01GRRB/R series drives give server and storage system customers the capacity they need with the performance they want, in addition to the facility to secure data at the drive with Toshiba’s SED technology option.” The Toshiba MK01GRRB/R series is scheduled to start out volume shipments in Q1 2012. For more info on Toshiba’s line of industry-leading enterprise-class small form factor hard drives, visit www.toshibastorage.com.
About Toshiba Storage
Toshiba is a one-of-a-kind global storage company, offering harddisk drives (HDDs), solid state drives (SSDs) and NAND flash memories – technologies that drive quite a lot of consumer electronics, computer and automotive applications, in addition to enterprise solutions for the worldwide marketplace. Toshiba leads within the development, design and manufacture of mobile, retail and enterprise hard disk drive 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 within the Toshiba storage family are the high-quality engineering and manufacturing capabilities which have established Toshiba products as innovation leaders worldwide. For additional information, visit www.toshibastorage.com.
About 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 pulse 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 drive drives (HDDs), discrete devices, LCD displays, advanced materials, medical tubes, custom SoCs/ASICs, imaging products, microcontrollers and wireless components that make possible today’s leading cellphones, MP3 players, cameras, medical devices, automotive electronics, 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 third largest semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner, 2010 WW Semiconductor Revenue, April 2011). Toshiba was founded in 1875, and today has greater than 490 subsidiaries and affiliates, with 203,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of $77 billion. Visit Toshiba’s site at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm.
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1. One Gigabyte (1GB) means 109 = 1,000,000,000 bytes using powers of 10. a pc operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of two for the definition of 1GB = 230 = 1,073,741,824 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of numerous media files) will vary according to file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, equivalent to Microsoft Operating System and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
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