Supermicro Qualified Toshiba HDDs

Toshiba’s Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announced that Supermicro Computer, Inc. has qualified two Toshiba enterprise HDD drive series.

As part of Supermicro’s storage offerings, customers will now be able to deploy Toshiba drives in either enterprise server or storage systems.

The qualified drives include:

• MG03ACA/MG03ACAY/MG03SCA/MG03SCP enterprise: 3.5-inch HDD series includes both SATA models – the MG03ACA400 and the MG3ACA400Y – and SAS models – MG03SCA400 and the MG03SCP400 – and all deliver 4TB of storage, the company’s largest capacity to date. The MG Series is suited for RAID storage and arrays, tiered virtual infrastructures for public and private cloud deployments, archives, and disk-based backup and data protection solutions. In addition, it includes power management features designed to reduce power consumption during off-peak activity periods, helping to reduce operating costs and increase efficiency.
• AL13SE enterprise: 2.5-inch 6Gb SAS interface HDD series offer capacities ranging from 300GB to 900GB. Designed for mission-critical applications, the series features an operating reliability rating of 2,000,000 power-on hours, a 25% increase over prior-generation drives.

"As corporations increasingly demand faster computing solutions and access to data, enterprises need to maximize both storage performance and efficiency while keeping cost-effectiveness in mind," said Joel Hagberg, VP marketing, Toshiba’s Storage Products Business Unit. "Toshiba and Supermicro have partnered to deliver advanced storage solutions to enterprise customers in an effort to help satisfy the increasing demand for high-performing and efficient enterprise storage."

"Enterprise and data center customers need scalable storage solutions that offer not only increased performance and capacity but also the highest levels of energy efficiency," said Wally Liaw, VP, sales international at Supermicro. "Supermicro meets this challenge with the widest range of solutions including energy efficient 1U, 2U, 3U storage servers to our 4U FatTwin featuring 8x 3.5" hot-swap HDDs per U and new high capacity 4U Double-Sided Storage server featuring 72x external 3.5" hot-swap HDDs. Combined with Toshiba’s latest enterprise, high performance, energy efficient HDDs, Supermicro offers the industry maximum flexibility to deploy solutions matching their exact application requirements."