Toshiba has announced the MBF series of enterprise hard drives. The 2.5" drives come in a top capacity of 600GB. The drives are also the first to incorporate Toshiba’s enterprise-class self encrypting drive (SED) offering, which encrypts data within the storage device.
Toshiba has announced the MBF series of enterprise hard drives. The 2.5" drives come in a top capacity of 600GB. The drives are also the first to incorporate Toshiba’s enterprise-class self encrypting drive (SED) offering, which encrypts data within the storage device.
The MDF series also feature a SAS 6Gb/s interface, 10,025 RPM spindle speed and a power saving mode that lets the drive spin more slowly when not in use.
The MBF is very similar to Seagate’s latest Savvio offering which was announced a week ago. Clearly the enterprise market is thirsty for 2.5" drives that reduce the required footprint and power consumption, without giving up much performance.
Toshiba MBF Product Specs
| Capacities | 300GB, 450GB, 600GB |
| Media Transfer Rate (max) | 216 MB/s |
| Average Seek Time | 4.0ms tpy. Read, 4.4ms tpy. Write |
| Rotational Speed | 10,025 RPM |
| Buffer | 16MB |
| Interface | SAS 2.0 (6GB/s SAS) |
Availability
The Toshiba MBF hard drives will come in 300GB, 450GB and 600GB capacities and will begin shipping in April 2010.
