Toshiba Launches MBF, Industry’s Highest-Capacity Small Form Factor Enterprise HDD
Toshiba has today introduced a new high-capacity, high-performance, power-efficient small form factor MBF hard disk drive for enterprise applications that has top capacity at 600-GB, and represents the industry’s highest-capacity 2.5-inch enterprise-class HDD
Featuring Toshiba’s first enterprise-class self-encrypting drive (SED), this MBF series meets the exacting standards of the enterprise market with 10,025 RPM spin speed and a 6-Gb/second SAS interface for use in mid-range volume servers, mainstream storage arrays, blade and rack-mount servers and other business-critical, power-conscious, data-intensive applications.
Weighing Only 220 gms, the MBF HDDs are available in 300 or 450 or 600 GB capacity and offers 216 MB/s data transfer rate, 4 ms /4.4 ms Average Read/Write seek time and comes equipped with 16-MB internal buffer/cache memory and supports SAS 2.0 interface.
Building upon lower power consumption, the 2.5-inch MBF series reduces power consumption up to 28 percent, using a new enhanced power condition state, which enables the HDD to spin at a lower RPM when not in use.
Toshiba believes that with a 600-GB top capacity, 28% lower power consumption and smaller 2.5-inch footprint, Toshiba’s MBF series small form factor enterprise HDDs further enable the growing trend of enterprise system migration from 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch HDDs and optional inclusion of Toshiba’s SED technology supports endpoint protection in data-sensitive environments.
Self-encrypting drive (SED)
The Toshiba MBF series offer an option of drive-based encryption designed to the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Enterprise Security Subsystem Class specification which provide standards-based protocols to promote industry-wide adoption by HDD vendors, security management independent software vendors (ISVs), independent hardware vendors (IHVs) and storage system designers.
The self-encrypting drive have become an important component in the enterprise environment with features such as secure erase, which makes the repurpose and retire process easier for organizations that use these drives.
The Toshiba MBF series HDD is available in 300GB, 450GB and 600GB capacities and will ship in volume in April 2010 with samples available now for design development. Visit www.toshibastorage.com for more details.
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