Toshiba Memory Corp releases enhanced data center

KUALA LUMPUR: Toshiba Memory Corporation, a leader in memory solutions, yesterday announced its latest line-up of NVM Express (NVMe) and SATA data center solid-state drives (SSDs) in multiple form factors.

Samples of the CD5 Series and XD5 Series of NVMe SSDs, and the HK6-DC Series of SATA SSDs will be available to limited customers in the second quarter of 2018.

The new SSDs utilise the company's 64-layer 3-bit-percell triple-level cell (TLC) BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory, it said in a statement.

In combination with controllers designed and developed in-house, the new SSDs deliver quality, reliability, and comprehensive customer support.

The new SSDs offer cloud data centers robust performance and reliability, and deliver lower operating power for readintensive applications such as NoSQL databases, big data analytics and streaming media.

They will support infrastructure managers in addressing performance and meeting consistent workload demands in data.

The three series are optimised for low latency and performance consistency in read-intensive workloads, for Open Compute Project (OCP) and hyper-scale/ cloud applications.

The new data center SSDs also feature power loss protection and cryptographic erase support, Sanitise Instant Erase (SIE), for secure data erasure.