Toshiba today announced the new AL14SX Series HDD - a family of 15,000rpm enterprise performance hard disk drives for mission critical servers and storage.
The AL14SX Series is available in 300GB, 600GB and 900GB capacities in a 2.5 inch, 15mm form-factor. Available models support 512 native, 4K native or emulated 512 sector length technologies for optimized compatibility with industry standard applications and operating environments. At 290 MiB/s with 4Kn/512e model and 5.6 watt power consumption rating, the AL14SX features a 19 percent increase in maximum sustained transfer rate and a 28.7 percent improvement in power efficiency (W/GB) over the prior AL13SX generation.
The AL14SX Series features optional Sanitize Instant Erase (SIE) models and leverages Toshiba's persistent write cache technology for data integrity in sudden power-loss environments.
The AL14SX drives are already shipping.
Form Factor |
2.5-inch |
Interface |
12 Gbit/s SAS |
Formatted Capacity |
900 GB |
600 GB |
300 GB |
Buffer Size |
128 MiB |
Rotation Speed |
15,000 rpm |
Data Transfer Speed
( Sustained ) |
4Kn , 512e |
290 MiB/s |
512n |
259 MiB/s |
MTTF |
2,000,000 h |
Power Consumption ( Idle - A ) |
5.6 W Typ. |
Weight |
230 g Max. |