[December 02, 2013]

Read-Intensive Applications Have Met Their Match in New Toshiba Enterprise SSD

The Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba (News - Alert) America Electronic Components, Inc., a committed technology leader, announces a new enterprise read-intensive solid state drive (eSSD) - the PX03SN. Designed to support the widest possible range of read-intensive applications, the PX03SN is available in capacities of up to 1.6TB¹ and supports one full drive write per day². The new 2.5-inch form factor SAS (News - Alert) interface eSSD is designed for read-intensive applications, server storage and caching applications, and storage systems where customers are looking for a balance between cost, endurance and performance.

Optimized for read-intensive, read-caching, and low-duty storage applications, the newest addition to the eSSD family features a 12 Gbit/s³ SAS interface. The PX03SN reflects Toshiba's continued storage innovation and is optimized for its target segment with NAND flash processes, density, endurance and interface implementation.

"Toshiba gives customers a 'one stop shop' capability for their storage requirements, including both SSDs and hard disk drives (HDDs) for customers' mobile and enterprise needs," said Don Jeanette, senior director of marketing at Toshiba Storage Products Business Unit. "We are seeing increasing demand for eSSDs that offer a SAS interface and meet customers' endurance and price requirements without sacrificing performance."

The PX03SN 200/400/800GB and 1.6TB, read-intensive customer samples will begin shipping this month. For more information on Toshiba's line of industry-leading SSDs, HDDs and SSHDs, visit www.toshibastorage.com. To connect with Toshiba Storage, visit the corporate blog at http://storage.toshiba.com/corporateblog/ and follow @ToshibaStorage on Twitter (News - Alert).

About Toshiba Storage Products

Toshiba Corporation and its affiliates offer one-of-a-kind global storage solutions, offering hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state drives (SSDs) and NAND flash memories - technologies that drive a wide range of consumer electronics, computer and automotive applications, as well as enterprise solutions for the global marketplace. Toshiba is a leader in the development, design and manufacture of mobile, consumer and enterprise hard disk drives and solid state drives. In North America, the Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic Components, 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 innovation leaders worldwide. For more information, visit www.toshibastorage.com.

About Toshiba Corp. and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)

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

Toshiba America Electronic Components, 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 fifth largest semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner (News - Alert), 2012 Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue, April, 2013). Toshiba Corporation was founded in 1875 and today has over 554 subsidiaries and affiliates, with 210,000 employees worldwide. Visit Toshiba's web site at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm.

© 2013 Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. All rights reserved. All product, service and company names are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. Information in this press release, including product pricing, availability and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is subject to change without prior notice. Technical and application information contained here is subject to the most recent applicable Toshiba product specifications.

¹ Definition of capacity: Toshiba defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB = 2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, such as Microsoft (News - Alert) Operating System and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.

² One full drive write per day means the drive can be written and re-written to full capacity 1 time a day for five years, the stated product warranty period. Actual results may vary due to system configuration, usage, and other factors.

³ Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions, and file size.

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