Toshiba has announced their highest capacity 15,000RPM 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive, offered in capacities up to 300GB. This new model, dubbed the MK3001GRRB/R, features an SAS interface and drive-based encryption to reduce end-of-life costs when retiring old models without having to perform lengthly rewrites to wipe old data.
Toshiba has announced their highest capacity 15,000RPM 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive, offered in capacities up to 300GB. This new model, dubbed the MK3001GRRB/R, features an SAS interface and drive-based encryption to reduce end-of-life costs when retiring old models without having to perform lengthly rewrites to wipe old data.
A big push for the Toshiba MK01GRRB-series is its lower power consumption values with are listed at 4.3-4.5-watts active depending on capacity. Lower power translates into lower cooling requirements and less cooling-related power consumption in the datacenter.
Toshiba MK3001GRRB/R and MK1401GRRB/R Specifications:
- Model Numbers MK3001GRRB/R, MK1401GRRB/R
- Maximum capacity (formatted) 300GB and 147GB
- Rotational speed 15,000 RPM
- Buffer Size: 32MB
- Average seek time (ms) 2.7 read / 3.0 write
- Interface 6Gb/s SAS
- Self-Encrypting Drive Yes (MKxx01GRRR models)
- Power (Ready): 4.5 watts / 4.3 watts
- Power Read/Write: 8.7 watts
- Temperature Operating 5 – 55°C
- Temperature Non-operating -40 – +70°C
- Altitude Operating -305 to 3,048m
- Non-operating -305 to 12,192m
- Five Year Warranty
