HDD delivers high mission critical disk drive performance

16th June 2017

Toshiba

Alice Matthews

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A family of 15,000rpm enterprise performance hard disk drives for mission critical servers and storage has been announced by Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE). With a new 900GB capacity model, the AL14SX series HDD series features a 50% capacity increase and superior performance and power savings compared to Toshiba’s prior AL13SX generation. The AL14SX series is available in 300, 600 and 900GB capacities in a compact 2.5", 15mm form-factor, saving rack space and reducing mission critical storage footprint as well as operational burden.

Available models support 512 native, 4K native or emulated 512 sector length technologies for optimised compatibility with industry standard applications and operating environments.

At 290MiB/s with 4Kn/512e model and 5.6W power consumption rating, the AL14SX features a 19% increase in maximum sustained transfer rate and a 28.7% improvement in power efficiency (W/GB) over the prior AL13SX generation.

“The new 900GB AL14SX Enterprise Performance models are a logical extension of our successful AL13SX model line-up and are well matched to the latest generation servers and storage systems,” said Noriaki Katakura, General Manager of Toshiba Electronics Europe, HDD Business Unit. “With both 512n sector and Advanced Format sector models available, the AL14SX series provides high performance and capacity for mission critical workloads that demand low HDD latency and superior data integrity.”

The AL14SX series features optional Sanitise Instant Erase (SIE) models and leverages Toshiba’s persistent write cache technology for robust data integrity in sudden power-loss environments. Each model is purpose-built for tier one mission critical servers; RAID (redundant array of independent disks) storage; servers hosting databases and transaction-based applications; high-performance computing; and rack-optimised data centres.