Toshiba Launches New SSD Family for Enterprise Market

Enterprise big wigs have a new solid state drive (SSD) series to choose from, Toshiba’s new MKx001GRZB family. Toshiba’s latest SSDs come built on a 32nm manufacturing process and sport enterprise grade single-level cell (eSLC) NAND flash memory, whereas most desktop SSDs use multi-level cell (MLC) chips.

The new drives also boast a 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface, up to 510MB/s sustained reads, up to 230MB/s writes, and random sustained read and write IOPS of 90,000 and 17,000, respectively.

Toshiba’s shipping its new SSD family in 100GB, 200GB, and 400GB capacities, each of which the company says is designed for ease of integration into new or existing tier-0 enterprise storage systems and designs, including servers, direct-attached storage, and network-attached storage.

No word yet on price.

Image Credit: Toshiba

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