PRESS RELEASE
900GB HDD meets enterprise demand for improved reliability and performance
4 December, 2012, Dusseldorf - Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE), Storage Products Division has today announced that the SlimFITT HDD is now available to buy from select distributors across the EMEA region. With 900GB[1] of capacity and a spindle speed of 10,500 RPM, the drive provides enterprises with a dependable, high speed drive for business critical data. The SlimFITT model of the 2.5-inch (6.4cm) SAS drive is mounted in a 3.5-inch frame making it ideal for blade and rack mount servers accustomed to larger form factor drives. Its small form factor has the added benefit of lower energy consumption, helping businesses to cut down on energy bills.
The SlimFITT drive offers a more stable and reliable enterprise drive. It provides a 50% increase in capacity on the previous generation. Not only this, but it delivers an enhanced performance with a 32% increase in sustained transfer rate. The new range of drives is also the first from Toshiba to utilise innovative technologies such as Dual-stage Head Positioning Actuator technology which improves head positioning accuracy by approximately 30% resulting in better overall stability and performance.
The new drives are designed to last 24/7 for at least five years with a MTTF (mean team between failures) of 2 million hours compared to only 1.6 million of its competitors. It can easily be implemented into the first tier of any tiered storage system, providing businesses quick access to important company data that needs to be readily available.
Martin Larsson, Vice President, Toshiba Electronics Europe, Storage Products Division, said: "Businesses worldwide are faced with a data deluge. In order to manage these huge amounts of data they need storage solutions that provide fast, reliable access to mission critical data. The AL13SE series perfectly balances performance and reliability and uses less power than the traditional 3.5-inch alternatives."
Specifications
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Model Number |
AL13SEL900 |
AL13SEL600 |
AL13SEL450 |
AL13SEL300 |
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Capacity |
900 GB |
600 GB |
450 GB |
300 GB |
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Average seek time |
Read |
3.7 msec |
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Write |
4.1 msec |
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Interface |
SAS 2.0 |
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Interface speed |
6Gb/s |
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Rotational speed |
10,500rpm |
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Buffer memory |
64 MiB[*] |
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External dimensions |
(W)101.6 mm×(L)147.0 mm×(H)26.1 mm |
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Weight |
0.5 kg |
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Power consumption |
Idle |
4.7 W |
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Low power |
2.7 W |
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Acoustics (Ready) |
31 dB |
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Vibration resistance |
Operating |
9.8 m/s2 {1.0 G, 20-300 Hz} |
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Non-operating |
49 m/s2 {5.0 G, 20-300 Hz} |
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Shock resistance |
Operating |
980 m/s2 {100 G, 1 ms} |
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Non-operating |
3,920 m/s2 {400 G, 2 ms} |
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* One Mebibyte (1MiB) is calculated as 1,048,576bytes.
About Toshiba Europe Storage Products Division
Toshiba Europe Storage Products Division (SPD) has remained at the forefront of the storage industry for over 40 years and is the world's only storage supplier that owns design, development, manufacturing, sales and other infrastructure functions spanning the enterprise, mobile and retail environments for both HDD and SSD products. Customers are original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), system integrators and distributors within the EMEA region.
As a leading provider of integrated storage solutions and as the principal inventor of NAND flash storage, Toshiba sets many of today's industry standards for storage technology. Throughout its history, Toshiba SPD has revolutionized the design and development of storage devices and its drives can be found inside the world's leading GPS navigation systems, consumer electronics, computers and enterprise solutions. In addition, Toshiba Storage Products Division offers an extensive range of advanced technology drives such as high durability 24/7, extended temperature and SSDs for the consumer, industrial, enterprise and automotive sector.
For more information visit www.storage.toshiba.eu.
About Toshiba Electronics Europe
Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) is the European electronic components business of Toshiba Corporation, which is ranked among the world's largest semiconductor vendors. TEE offers one of the industry's broadest IC and discrete product lines including high-end memory, microcontrollers, ASICs, ASSPs and display products for automotive, multimedia, industrial, telecoms and networking applications. The company also has a wide range of power semiconductor solutions as well as HDD and SSD solutions for embedded applications. TEE was formed in 1973 in Neuss, Germany, providing design, manufacturing, marketing and sales and now has headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany, with subsidiaries in France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. TEE employs approximately 300 people in Europe. Company president is Mr. Takashi Nagasawa.
About Toshiba
Toshiba is a world-leading diversified manufacturer, solutions provider and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products and systems. Toshiba Group brings innovation and imagination to a wide range of businesses: digital products, including LCD TVs, notebook PCs, retail solutions and MFPs; electronic devices, including semiconductors, storage products and materials; industrial and social infrastructure systems, including power generation systems, smart community solutions, medical systems and escalators & elevators; and home appliances.
Toshiba was founded in 1875, and today operates a global network of more than 550 consolidated companies, with 202,000 employees worldwide and annual sales surpassing 6.1 trillion yen (US$74 billion). Visit Toshiba's web site at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm.
