Toshiba Memory Corporation to Deliver Value SAS SSDs Targeting SATA Applications
June 19 2018 - 9:24PM
Business Wire
New RM5 vSAS Series Brings Improved Performance, Reliability and
Capacity at a Price Point that Enables SATA Replacement in
Servers
Toshiba Memory Corporation, the world leader in memory
solutions, today unveiled a new, game-changing category of SAS SSDs
expected to replace SATA SSDs in server applications. The RM5
12Gbit/s value SAS (vSAS) series features capacity, performance,
reliability, manageability and data security advantages – at a
price that obsoletes SATA SSDs.
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Toshiba Memory Corporation: The RM5 value
SAS (vSAS) SSD series (Photo: Business Wire)
A homogeneous SAS environment has long been the gold standard
for enterprise server and storage systems. With vertical
integration expertise in flash technology, firmware and controller
design, Toshiba Memory Corporation leveraged its leading position
as the world’s leading[1] SAS SSD line optimizing RM5 to close the
cost gap with SATA – and usher in a new class of SSDs. SATA simply
cannot compete with SAS, falling well short in terms of
performance, robustness, and encryption options.
Designed with affordability and server applications in mind,
Toshiba Memory Corporation’s RM5 vSAS series seeks to provide a
cost effective and much higher performing solution to overcome the
bottlenecks that are inherent with SATA today. Where SATA drives
often use SAS expanders to scale out, the RM5 enables the use of
native SAS from end-to-end, eliminating the need for protocol
translation to SATA. Customers can now take full advantage of SAS’s
richer feature set and realize performance throughput superiority
over SATA.
Featuring Toshiba Memory Corporation’s BiCS FLASH™ TLC
(3-bit-per-cell) 3D flash memory, the RM5 series will initially be
available in capacities up to 7.68TB[2] with a single 12Gbit/s
port, SFF-8639 connector and in a 2.5” form factor. Sample
shipments to OEM customers start today in limited quantities, and
Toshiba Memory Corporation will gradually increase shipments from
the third calendar quarter of 2018.
The RM5 series will be exhibited at HPE (Hewlett Packard
Enterprise) Discover in Las Vegas, U.S.A. until June 21, in the
Toshiba Memory America booth #196.
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Notes[1] SAS unit shipments, IDC Worldwide Solid State Storage
Quarterly Update: Summary CY 1Q1 May 2018[2] Definition of
capacity: Toshiba Memory Corporation defines 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 bytes =
1,073,741,824 bytes, 1TB = 240 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 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 Operating System and/or pre-installed software
applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may
vary.
Customer Inquiries:Sales Planning DivisionTel:
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