Toshiba 600GB 2.5-Inch Enterprise HDDs in Benchmark Testing

Toshiba announces achievement of the highest levels of performance according to benchmark testing conducted on equipment manufactured by Super Micro Computer, Inc.

The testing demonstrated that Toshiba’s MBF series drives provide superior read and write performance, seek time, and power efficiency.

For the performance metrics, Iometer benchmark tool was used on a Supermicro SuperChassis 216E26 2U 24-bay system equipped with an X8DT3-F motherboard with dual Intel Xeon E5520 processors. The system was tested with Toshiba MBF2600RC HDDs and then with mainstream industry HDDs of similar form factor and capacity (600GB). In addition to superior read and write performance, the Toshiba MBF2600RC drive also demonstrated superior idle power (4.0 Watts vs. 5.0 Watts), seek time track-to-track (0.2/0.4 ms vs. 0.3/0.55 ms) and average seek time (4.0/4.4 ms vs. 4.0/4.54 ms).

  Performance Benchmarks:
  2.5-Inch Mainstream 6Gb/s SAS Drive
  vs. Toshiba MBF2600RC

  64KB = 64KB virtual disk stripe size
  256KB = 256KB virtual disk stripe size
  WB = Write cache ‘write back’ setting
  NORA = Read cache "no read ahead" setting

All testing information and chart are from the SAS2 Performance Benchmark Test Report by Supermicro, 01/07/2011.

"The benchmark testing demonstrates that Toshiba HDDs deliver the best features and performance to meet the needs of both enterprise and SMB customers," said Joel Hagberg, vice president of enterprise marketing at Toshiba Storage Device Division. "We are pleased to work with leading technology companies such as Supermicro to bring to market best-in-class server and storage systems."

"Supermicro’s product philosophy is to provide customers with server solutions featuring advanced performance and power efficiency," said Charles Liang, CEO and President of Supermicro. "Working with best-in-class suppliers such as Toshiba helps ensure that we stay ahead of the market in the design of server solutions that deliver advanced features and the highest performance per watt."