Toshiba said it has begun volume shipments of its MBF family of enterprise hard drives, the same units the company announced back in February. Though it has taken some four months to ramp up production, Toshiba's MBF drives remain the industry's highest-capacity, small form factor enterprise HDDs yet available.
"Toshiba’s MBF series enterprise-class drives possess a range of technological advancements that enable us to deliver flexible computing systems targeted to the exacting needs of our customers," said Mike Turricchi, director of product management, NCS Technologies, which designs solutions for the military, government, and commercial market sectors. "MBF series drives not only allow us to engineer systems with greater storage density to support storage consolidation, but the design characteristics of 2.5-inch drives also mean that they operate more efficiently in a broad range of demanding temperature, vibration, shock, and altitude conditions. In addition to storage systems based in branch offices and data centers, our customers rely on these drives for solutions used in field, mobile, aviation, marine, and seismic environments."
The MBF drives come in 300GB, 450GB, and 600GB capacities with each one featuring a media transfer rate of up to 216MB/s. Each drive also comes with 16MB of cache, a slightly faster than 10,000 RPM, SAS 2.0 interface, 6Gb/s interface, and weigh 220g or less, Toshiba says.
