Toshiba Introduces Industry's Highest-Capacity Enterprise Small Form Factor 15k RPM HDD

Continuing its leadership of technology in small form factor hard disk drives, Toshiba's Storage Products Business Unit, a division of Toshiba America Electronic Elements, 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 15,000 RPM spin speed, 6Gb/s SAS interface, and top capacity of 300GB1. Should the contingency arise, the Toshiba MK01GRRR models offer drive-based encryption to help companies manage data security.

"Enterprise clients are increasingly satisfying their performance and capacity needs with power efficient small form factor drives. Enterprise drives with the latest self-encryption features are helping data centers to more cost-effectively achieve compliance with information security mandates," said Joel Hagberg, vice president of marketing at Toshiba's Storage Products Business Unit. "Toshiba small form factor enterprise drives deliver the performance, capacity and security features IT administrators require for today's mission critical server, storage and cloud appliance markets."

As part of its commitment to improved security, the Toshiba MK01GRRR drive features self-encryption innovation designed to the Trusted Computing Group "Enterprise SSC" specification. SED research provides simple and complete data security throughout the drive's usable life cycle - with no performance impact - and enables organizations to crypto-graphically erase protected data securely, enabling the ability to return, service, repurpose, or retire drives without lengthy data overwrite operations or physical destruction of the drive.

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"Increasing the capacity of 2.5-inch enterprise class HDDs is expanding the market possibility for this form factor given its inherent power and data density advantages as compared to 3.5-inch models," said John Rydning, IDC's innovation vice president for hard disk drives. "Toshiba's new MK01GRRB/R series drives give server and storage system clients the capacity they want with the performance they need, as so then as the ability to secure data on the drive with Toshiba's SED innovation option." The Toshiba MK01GRRB/R series is scheduled to begin volume shipments in Q1 2012. For more information on Toshiba's line of industry-leading enterprise-class small form factor hard drives, visit www.toshibastorage.com.

Toshiba is a one-of-a-kind global storage company, offering hard disk drives, solid state drives and NAND flash memories - technologies that drive a wide range of consumer electronics, computer and automotive applications, as so then as enterprise solutions for the global marketplace. Toshiba leads in the development, design and manufacture of mobile, retail and enterprise hard disk drives. In North America, the Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic Elements, 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 technology leaders worldwide. For more information, visit www.toshibastorage.com.

Through proven commitment, lasting relationships and advanced, reliable electronic elements, Toshiba enables its clients 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 elements leader, Toshiba designs and manufactures high-quality flash memory-based storage solutions, solid state drives, hard disk drives, discrete devices, LCD displays, advanced materials, medical tubes, custom SoCs/ASICs, imaging products, microcontrollers and wireless elements that make possible today's leading cell phones, MP3 players, cameras, medical devices, automotive electronics, enterprise solutions and more.

Toshiba America Electronic Elements, 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. Toshiba was founded in 1875, and today has more than 490 subsidiaries and affiliates, with 203,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of $77 billion. Visit Toshiba's web site at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm.