Delivering the highest random read performance
of 270,000 IOPS with 12Gbit/s SAS interface
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 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. "SAS SSDs, such as Toshiba’s PX04S Series, 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.
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, 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 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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