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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
- editor's notes:- In May 2008 -
Toshiba acquired
approximately $30 million of shares in
Mtron.
In Q2
2008 Toshiba was once again the #9 ranked SSD OEM - see
the Top 10
Solid State Disk Companies Although it later dropped out of the top 10 in
Q3 and
Q4 2008.
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
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| New Guide
for SSD Wannabies |
Editor:- May 1, 2009 - StorageSearch.com published a
new article this Month called -
"3 Easy Ways to
Enter the SSD Market."
Nowadays it seems like everyone wants
to get into the SSD market. This tells you how to do it. And gives real
examples.
So if you're a
hard disk maker, or
RAID controller company
or flash memory maker who
still doesn't have an SSD product line here's my advice.
Stop
giving the press interviews about how you're still - "looking" at
the SSD market from the sidelines and evaluating what you might do next year
maybe..."
Some of these storage manufacturers (and you know
who I mean) - have been
singing the same old song for years. And it just sounds pathetic. They should
shape up, shut up, and
get in the game. |
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I've had early feedback from
senior VPs in several SSD companies already - who think it's a very interesting
article. A shade cynical and brutal in places - but tells it how it is... | | |
