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Toshiba SDD, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems,
Inc., leads the market in the development, design and manufacturing of small
form factor 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch
hard disk drives, as
well as next-generation
HD DVD storage products.
Toshiba SDD markets high-quality peripherals to original equipment
manufacturers, value-added resellers, value-added dealers, systems integrators,
distributors and retailers in the United States. Inherent in the Toshiba
storage family are the high-quality engineering and manufacturing capabilities
that have established Toshiba products as worldwide leaders. For more
information, visit www.toshibastorage.com.
see also:-
Toshiba
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
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- editor's comments:- February 2010 - although Toshiba was a
pioneer in the
subminiature hard drive market (having shown the
1st
0.85" hard drive in January 2004) and despite Toshiba having the
biggest market share in the 1.8"
HDD market - the company had mostly failed to fire the imagination of the
SSD market upto the beginning of 2010. This is confirmed by its poor
rankings in the top 10
SSD lists (see table above).
Will they succeed any better in the
year of the SSD market
bubble? This is the best time for me-too products - when there are hundreds
of competing manufacturers. Toshiba will have to decide which markets it wants
to be in - and design products which are a closer match to what buyers are
prepared to pay for. That's not always the cheapest product.
Toshiba milestones from recent
SSD Market
History
In May 2008 -
Toshiba acquired
approximately $30 million of shares in
Mtron.
In
September 2008 - Toshiba sampled a 256GB 2.5" SATA MLC flash SSD
with R/W speeds of 120 / 70 MB/s.
In December 2008 -
Toshiba said it will
sample a new family of MLC flash SSDs with 256GB capacity in 2.5" and
128GB capacity in 1.8" form factors in Q1 2009.
In January
2009 - Toshiba
announced it will start volume production of dual port
SAS SLC flash SSDs in
Q2 2009. The 2.5" SSDs
will have 100GB capacity, and 25,000 read IOPS, and 20,000 write IOPS. One of
the enabling factors for the high write IOPS is the use of a non-volatile cache
- which was predicted in StorageSearch.com's article -
the Flash SSD Performance
Roadmap. This brings the number of oems who have announced SAS SSDs to 6.
See SSD Buyers
Guide table for the full list.
In May 2009 -
Toshiba announced it is
offering 512GB
SSDs as an option in notebooks for the Japanese market. The new,
Toshiba-developed 512GB SSD employs a 2-bit-per-cell
MLC flash memory -
which gives 4x the capacity of SLC flash used in industrial and
enterprise SSDs for the same silicon wafer footprint. One of the
failures of the SSD
market in 2008 was the low performance of SSDs integrated in notebooks.
Toshiba's new notebook seems to address that market failure . The company says
its new SSD controller
boosts data throughput figures of 230MB/s reads and 180MB/s writes.
In
September 2009 - A report in DIGITIMES said
that Toshiba has
ordered flash memory card controllers from ITE Tech to diversify its
supplier base.
In January 2010 -
Toshiba
announced
it is sampling 128GB mSATA MLC SSD modules (30mm x 50.95mm x 4.75mm ) aimed
at the netbook
PC market. Sequential R/W speeds are 180MB/s and 70MB/s respectively. Weight
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are
hundreds
of articles about SSDs on StorageSearch.com |
Here, below, are some
examples.
- RAM Cache
Ratios in flash SSDs - it's important to know the underlying RAM cache
architecture - even if you're happy with the R/W and IOPS performance.
- 2010 - 1st Fizz
in the SSD Bubble? - even the dogs in the street know this is going to be a
multibillion dollar market. Greed will play as big a part as technology in
shaping the
SSD year ahead.
- the pros and cons of
using SSD ASAPs - auto tuning SSD appliances are a new category of SSD
which entered the market in the 2nd half of 2009 to accelerate servers without
needing human tune-ups. How can you tell if they are right for you? And how
well do they work?
- the Problem
with Write IOPS - in flash SSDs - long established as a useful performance
modeling metric - this article explains why some specs are exaggerated when
applied to flash SSDs - or predict the wrong results for many common
applications.
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