Toshiba announce 4TB and 2TB SAS SSDs

Toshiba announce 4TB and 2TB SAS SSDs

 

Toshiba have announced the availability of their 4TB and 2TB SAS enterprise SSDs, offering read speeds of up to 1,900MB/s on the 2TB version and a 5 year warranty. 

Strangely this drive actually has it’s read and write speeds drop as you move from the 2TB to the 4TB model, with the read speeds dropping by 400MB/s and the write speeds dropping by 100MB/s. This SSD is designed for read intensive workloads, like video on demand, web servers and other read heavy applications. 

 

     The PX04SL SSD family is designed for read-intensive application workloads including web servers, data warehousing, media streaming and VOD and offers large capacities up to 4TB with 12.0 Gbit/s SAS interface.

    

Key Features

• – 2TB and 4TB Storage Capacity
• – 12.0 Gbit/s Dual-Port SAS Interface
• – 270K IOPS Sustained Random Read Performance
• – 0.5 DWPD with 100% Random Workload
• – Improved Read/Write Bandwidth and Random IOPS
• – Power-Loss-Protection and End-to-End Data Protection including T10 DIF
• – Pin-3 Power Disable Support
• – Self-Encrypting (SED) Option (PX04SLQxxx)

 

 

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